Quotes About Troy

Well, back in Troy, Odysseus and I always agreed in councils, with one mind. We gave the Argives all the best advice.

Men—let one of them die, another live, however their luck may run. Let Zeus decide the fates of the men of Troy and men of Argos both, to his deathless heart's content—that is only right.

would to god I'd stayed right here in my own house with a third of all that wealth and they were still alive, all who died on the wide plain of Troy those years ago, far from the stallion-land of Argos.

Hippolocus begat me. I claim to be his son, and he sent me to Troy with strict instructions: Ever to excel, to do better than others, and to bring glory to your forebears, who indeed were very great.... This is my ancestry; this is the blood I am proud to inherit.

To which end grace me with thine arms, since any shadow seen Of thy resemblance, all the pow'r of perjur'd Troy will fly, And so our tired friends will breathe: our fresh-set-on supply Will easily drive their wearied off.

Would, by father Zeus, Athene, and Apollo, that not a single man of all the Trojans might be left alive, nor yet of the Argives, but that we two might be alone left to tear aside the mantle that veils the brow of Troy.

Homer's epic does not tell of such seemingly essential events as the abduction of Helen, for example, nor of the mustering and sailing of the Greek fleet, the first hostilities of the war, the Trojan Horse, and the sacking and burning of Troy. Instead, the 15,693 lines of Homer's Iliad describe the occurrences of a roughly two-week period in the tenth and final year of what had become a stalemated siege of Troy.

All theatricals are round the twist, Troy,' said Barnaby, tugging at the doors that led to the foyer. 'If they weren't they'd get out of the business and into real estate.

I had a sports teacher like that,' said Troy when Janet had departed. 'Knobbly knees, plimsolls, no tits, whistle round her neck. They really turn me up, dykes. All members of the buggerocracy, come to that.

The difference between love and respect was markedly shown in her conduct. Bathsheba had spoken of her interest in Boldwood with the greatest freedom to Liddy, but she only communed with her own heart concerning Troy.

This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.

Agamemnon was killed on his first night home from Troy. But Agamemnon was guilty, guilty.

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The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

Ah, no wonder the men of Troy and Argives under arms have suffered years of agony all for her, for such a woman. Beauty, terrible beauty! —The Iliad, Homer, TRANSLATED BY ROBERT FAGLES

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

And that was when the massive crowd in the Iroquois Theater auditorium began to panic.

What's the matter, Bob?" "On." He looked at Aunt Judith, seeming embarrassed. "Well, actually, it just occurred to me that Elena is a form of the name Helen. And for some reason I was thinking of Helen of Troy." "Beautiful and doomed," said Bonnie happily.

The oldest written poem was by the Greek, Homer. His poem, The Iliad, tells the story of the siege of Troy, a story of the heroes who fought to the death to get Helen back to her hubby, King Menelaus.

Ter circum Iliacos raptaverat Hectora muros, exanimumque auro corpus vendebat Achilles.

How fortunate were you, thrice fortunate and more, whose luck it was to die under the high walls of Troy before your parents' eyes!

Troy has fallen—and fallen let her stay— with the very name of Troy!

Some courtiers to wearie out time woulde tell vs further tales of Cornelius Agrippa, and how when sir Thomas Moore our countrieman was there, hee shewed him the whole destruction of Troy in a dreame.

Inchcape, bending towards her, said: 'You are Helen of Troy. We ask only that you should be beautiful. Yours is the face that launched a thousand ships.