iliad

• grow old in Argos
• father, mother, brother and husband to me
• take the possessions and the woman
• i wish i had found a better husband
• if i ever gave you this breast to soothe your troubles
• may i be dead before i see you dragged away
• eat him raw
• war is men’s business
• no hope that he will grow to manhood
• arch deceiver
• tried to irritate hera
• let the trojans have the upper hand till the greeks pay back my son
• my child, why these tears
• field of honour
• my heart burns to aid our trojans
• if i lose you i were better dead because should you meet your fate there will be no more joy for me only sorrow
• seeking to win great glory for my father and myself

  hector
• if i hid from the fighting like a coward i would be shamed

  hector
• nor should i dare to pour a libation with unwashed hands

  hector
• hector was gripped by fear and trembling at the sight of him
• i have lifted my lips to the hands of the man who killed my sons
• his words moved achilles to tears at the thought of his own father
• there is no homecoming for me but there will be eternal glory instead

  achilles
• i have no wish to live longer unless hector pays the price for slaughtering patroclus
• leaving the corpses head to trail along the ground
• pierced the tendons of both feet
• refused to retreat 


  hector
• whom i loved as much as my own life
• he grovelled in the dung

  priam
• they mourned for hector even though he was still alive
• she tore her hair 


  hecabe
• she was distraught to the point of death

  andromache
• alarmed at the sight of his father
• a black cloud of grief engulfed achilles
• black night came down and engulfed andromaches eyes