Only yesterday Zeus went off to the Ocean River to feast with the _____________, loyal, lordly men and all the gods went with him.
Nine days the arrows of god swept the army. On the tenth, ______________ called all the ranks to muster—the impulse seized him, sent by white-armed Hera grieving to see Achaean fighters drop and die. (I. 61-64)
“Welcome couriers, Good heralds of Zeus and men, here, come closer. You have done nothing to me. You are not to blame.” (I.394-396)
“Oh my son, my sorrow, why did I ever near you? All I bore was doom.”(I.491-3)
“Still asleep, Agamemnon? …
Listen to me, quickly! Zeus commands you to arm your long-haired Achaeans, to attack at once, full force—now you can take the broad streets of Troy!” (II. 21-34)
“Old Priam, words endless words—that is your passion, always, as once in days of peace. But ceaseless war’s upon us! … I’ve never seen an army such as this.”(II. 905-910)
Incensed at the king he swept a fatal plague through the army—men were dying … their bodies carrion, feasts for dogs and birds. (I.4-11)
Here was the ugliest man who ever came to Troy. Bandy-legged, with one foot clubbed. (II. 250-51)
“If you have any power at all protect your son! Persuade him, somehow, to help the Trojan cause, to pin the Achaeans back against their ships. trap them round the bay and mow them down.” (I.468…85)
“You remember the last time I rushed to your defense? He seized my foot, he hurled me off the tremendous threshold and all day long I dropped.” (I.711-13)
Now they might have won their journey home, fighting the will of fate, yes, of Hera had not alerted Athena. (II.181-183)
“You are both younger than I, in my time I struck up with better men than you…men like Pirithous, Dryas, that fine captain…they took to heart my councils” (I.303-04)
He dropped to a knee, let fly a shaft and a terrifying clash rang out from the great silver bow. First he went for the mules and circling dogs but then, launching a piercing shaft at the men themselves, he cut them down in droves--and the corpse-fires burned on, night and day, no end in sight (I. 55-60)
[The] Lord of the war cry led sixty ships. Amidst the [Lacedaemonian] ranks he marched, his own heart blazed the most to avenge the groans and shocks of war they’d borne for Helen. (II. 678-82)
“The god's enraged because Agamemnon spurned his priest, he refused to free his daughter, he refused the ransom.” (I.110-11)
She had seen how Thetis, Thetis quick on her glistening feet was hatching plans with Zeus. (I.647-49)