Quotes About Mythology

Heracles would kill his wife again for a chance to come along.

Madeline Miller

I suppose that is true. You said that he shaped kingdoms, but he also shaped the thoughts of men. Before him, all the heroes were Heracles and Jason. Now children will play at voyaging, conquering hostile lands with wits and words.

I thought, This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.

The gray-eyed maiden has ever been kind to me," Odysseus said, almost apologetically. "She knows why I am here; she blesses and guards my purpose.

ACHILLES, it reads. And beside it, PATROCLUS.

Gli dei non permettono a nessuno di essere famoso e felice. [...] Ma voglio confidarti un segreto. [...] Io sarò il primo. [...] Giuralo." "Perché io?" "Perché sei tu la ragione.

There is no law that says the gods must be fair.

So do I," said Achilles. "I have heard that you taught Heracles and Jason, thick-fingered though they were. Is it true?

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles," Chiron said. "And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?" "Perhaps," Achilles admitted. I listened and did not speak. Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness

Come, I have fed you well. Will you tell me your names?" They looked up. Their eyes darted like ferrets to their leader. He rose, the bench scraping on the stone. "Tell us yours first." There was something in his voice. I almost said it then, the spell-word that would send them to sleep. But even after all the years that had passed, there was a piece of me that still only spoke what I was bid. "Circe," I answered.

The nymphs wafted around me. Their smothered laughter drifted down the halls. At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers, who would have bragged and fought and hunted down my wolves. But of course that was never a real danger. Sons were not punished.

She demanded payment for it, in advance, in kind. Cows were not enough. A virgin priestess was required, human blood for human blood; the leader's eldest daughter would be best.

As it turned out, I did kill pigs that

Aucune loi n'oblige les dieux à être justes, Achille, reprit Chiron. Et après tout, peut-être que l'ultime chagrin consiste à se retrouver seul sur terre une fois que l'autre est parti.

What was his best part?" "His lover, Patroclus. He didn't like me much, but then the good ones never do. Achilles went mad when he died; nearly mad, anyway.

We are all there, goddess and mortal, and the boy who was both.

Achilles returns to the tent, where my body waits. He is red and red and rust-red, up to his elbows, his knees, his neck, as if he has swum in the vast dark chambers of a heart and emerged, just now, still dripping.

first blood was ours, spilt by the god-like prince of Phthia.

His eyes opened. "Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.

For me, the Greek gods reflect what happens to humans when we see only ourselves and our own needs.

the Erinyes, our hissing spirits of vengeance, were not always particular.

Achilles weeps.

To release him from it and make him Achilles again.