Quotes About Mythology

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns, driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.

That is the god's work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come...

Patroclus, in Achilles' arms, enlighten'd all with stars

Both were gods of the same line, a single father, but Zeus was the elder-born and Zeus knew more.

The Odyssey puts us into a world that is a peculiar mixture of the strange and the familiar. The tension between strangeness and familiarity is in fact the poem's central subject.

The Spinners (Klothes) are imagined in Greek mythology as three old female figures who construct the thread of human destiny—

Then Hector, stooping, seiz'd a pond'rous stone 490 That lay before the gates; 'twas broad below, But sharp above; and scarce two lab'ring men, The strongest, from the ground could raise it up, And load upon a wain; as men are now; But he unaided lifted it with ease, 495 So light it seem'd, by grace of Saturn's son. As in one hand a shepherd bears with ease A full-siz'd fleece, and scarcely feels the weight;

he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion;

Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.

this is no horrible war of Achaians and Trojans, 380  but the Danaäns are beginning to fight even with the immortals.

scattering medicines that still pain, healed him, since he was not made to be one of the mortals.

Wrath—sing, goddess, of the ruinous wrath of Peleus' son Achilles

So the other gods as well as chariot-fighting men slept through the night;

Por espacio de nueve días acarrearon abundante leña; y, cuando por décima vez apuntó la aurora, que trae la luz a los mortales, sacaron llorando el cadáver del audaz Héctor, lo pusieron en lo alto de la pira y le prendieron fuego.

2.?ILIÁDOS B So the other gods as well as chariot-fighting men slept through the night; but

Now the gods were seated in assembly by Zeus

and poured libations out to the everlasting gods who never die — to Athena first of all, the daughter of Zeus with flashing sea-grey eyes — and the ship went plunging all night long and through the dawn (R. Fagles translation)

That was all gods' work, weaving ruin there So it should make a song for men to come!

All the other Greeks who had survived the brutal sack of Troy sailed safely home to their own wives—except this man alone. Calypso, a great

The narrator commands the Muse, "Tell me": enn-epe. An epic poem is, at its root, simply a tale that is told.

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Calchas the son of Thestor, far the most eminent of bird-seers