Quotations From The Iliad Book 6 6m193s

QUOTATIONS FROM THE ILIAD - BOOK 6 • (Achilles to Menelaus) “No; we are not going to leave a single one of them alive, down to the babies in their mothers’ wombs – not even they must live” • (Glaucus to Diomedes) “What does my lineage matter to you? Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year’s leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud…when the spring comes around” • (Diomedes to Glaucus) “So let us avoid each other’s spears…and let us exchange our armour so that everyone may know that our grandfathers’ friendship has made friends of us” • “Zeus the son of Cronos must have robbed Glaucus of his wits for he exchanged with Diomedes Golden armour for bronze, a hundred oxen’s worth for the value of nine” • (Hector to Hecuba) “bring me no wine or you will rob me of the use of my legs and leave me feeble…nor should I offer sparkling wine to Zeus with unwashed hands… bespattered with blood and filth” • (Hector about Paris) “ Indeed I wish the earth would open and swallow him up…..good riddance to bad rubbish”. • “Thus Theano (the priestess) prayed but for answer Pallas Athene shook her head” • (Hector to Paris) “Sir you disgrace yourself by sulking like this while our men are falling…it is your fault that this city is invaded by the sounds of battle…” • (Helen to Hector) “Brother, I am indeed a shameless, evilminded and abominable creature. Ah how I wish that on the day I was born, the Storm-fiend had swept me off into the mountains or the roaring sea….next to that…I wish I had found a better husband, one with some feeling for the contempt of his fellow men….but this husband I have got is an inconstant creature…..Ill-fated couple that we are, tormented by Heaven to figure In the songs of people yet unborn”

• (Andromache to Hector) “Hector you are possessed, this bravery of yours will be your end. You do not think of your little boy or your unhappy wife…when I lose you I might as well be dead….you are father, mother and brother to me as well as my beloved husband…stay here on the tower” • (Hector to Andromache) “ All that my dear is surely my concern. But if I hid myself like a coward and refused to fight, I could never face the Trojans…besides it would go against the grain, for I have trained myself always, like a good soldier to take my place in the frontline and win glory for my father and myself….may the earth lie deep on my dead body before I hear the screams you utter as they drag you off!” • (Hector to Andromache) “No one is going to send me down to Hades before my time. But fate is a thing that no man, coward or hero can escape…war is men’s business… mine above all” • Paris “hurried off through the town at full speed like a stallion who breaks his halter…and gallops off across the fields in triumph to …the river. He tosses up his head, his mane flies back along his shoulders, he knows how beautiful he is…”