Quotes About Mythology

Zeus' thunderbolts still smelled of singed flesh and patricide.

Quella parola, "ninfa", misurava l'estensione e l'ampiezza del nostro futuro. Nella nostra lingua significava non solo "dea", ma "sposa".

That does not mean I must run to help the sons of Atreus every time they lose their wives.

Comme dit le poète, Achille est la moitié de mon âme.

Zawistna ?mier? mia?a wyssa? z niego krew i sta? si? znów m?oda.

But of course: our stories had many characters. Great Perseus or modest Peleus. Heracles or almost-forgotten Hylas. Some had a whole epic, others just a verse.

La sangre divina purificaba la sangre sucia de nuestra raza y era capaz de forjar héroes solo con barro y arena.

Daedalus did not long outlive his son. His limbs turned grey, and all his strength was transmuted into smoke. I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation he was to me.

No logré darle la divinidad —dice Tetis con voz quebrada y llena de pesar. —Pero le diste la vida.

C'est étrange de penser qu'une déesse puisse avoir besoin d'amis. - Toutes les créatures qui ne sont pas folles en ont besoin.

He recited the story as if he were giving a recipe for meat. The storms that had blown them half across the world. The lands filled with cannibals and vengeful savages, with sybarites who drugged their wills. They had been ambushed by the cyclops Polyphemus, a savage one-eyed giant who was a son of Poseidon. He had eaten half a dozen men and sucked their bones. Odysseus had had to blind him to escape, and now Poseidon hunted them across the waves in vengeance

It was not honor that made Meleager fight, or his friends, or victory, or revenge, or even his own life. It was Cleopatra, on her knees before him, her face streaked with tears. Here is Phoinix's craft: Cleopatra, Patroclus. Her name built from the same pieces as mine, only reversed.

It is strange to think of a goddess needing friends.

And I wanted to be able to listen, to digest bloody images, to paint them flat and unremarkable onto the vase of posterity. To release him from it and make him Achilles again

The Myrmidons, they had begun calling themselves, ant-men, an old nickname of honor. Another thing Achilles had had to explain to me: the legend of Zeus creating the first Phthians from ants.

You think I'd let Apollo have him? He does not deserve such a flower. I blew a discus into the boy's head, that showed the Olympian prig.

Non mi sorprese come venivo ritratta: la maga altezzosaannichilita di fronte alla spada dell'eroe, inginocchiata a supplicare pietà. Le donne umiliate mi sembrano il passatempo preferito dei poeti. Quasi non possa esistere storia senza che noi strisciamo o piangiamo.

It was easy to stay with them long and late, until I heard the creaking of the chariot, and the distant banging of bronze, and returned to greet my Achilles.

The tears of those of naiad blood can flow for eternity, and I thought it might take an eternity to speak all my grief.

Be witness to the power of Circe, witch of Aiaia.

Teti: "Non sono riuscita a far di lui un dio" Patroclo: "Ma hai fatto lui

Best of men. Best of the Myrmidons.

What has Hector ever done to me?" Excerpt From: Miller, Madeline. "The Song of Achilles." Apple Books.

No passado, já pensei que os deuses eram o contrário da morte, mas agora vejo que estão mais mortos que tudo, pois são imutáveis e não conseguem segurar nada nas mãos.