Book 11 (Odyssey) Quotes

• "It was my heartache for you, my glorious Odysseus, and for your wise and gentle ways, that brought my life with all its sweetness to an end"


  Anticleia
• "It would be a great advantage to me to arrive in my own dear country with more possessions. For thus enriched I would win a warmer welcome and greater respect from everyone who saw me on my return to Ithaca"


  Odysseus
• "Women, I tell you, are no longer to be trusted"


  Agamemnon
• "I would rather work the soil of a serf on hire to some landless impoverished peasant than be king of all these lifeless dead"


  Achilles