Book 4 - Menelaus and Helen

• Menelaus I epithet?

  Illustrious Menelaus
• Who is the line ‘Men whom I take by their looks to be of divine descent’ about?

  Telemachus and Peisitratus
• Menelaus A epithet?

  Auburn-haired Menelaus
• ‘You and I enjoyed much hospitality 


  from strangers before we reach our homes and could expect that Zeus might grant us a life without suffering in time to come’ [ Menelaus ]
• ‘Unyoke their horses at once,


  and bring our visitors to join us at the feast’ [ Menelaus ]
• When they had feasted their


  eyes on the sight, they went and bathed in polished baths
• She then drew a polished table to their


  side, and the faithful housekeeper brought some bread and set it by them with a choice of delicacies
• ’After you’ve dined we shall


  inquire who you may be‘ [ Menelaus ]
• ‘The court of Zeus on Olympus must


  be like this inside. The sight fills me with awe’ [ Telemachus ]
• ‘No mortal can compete with Zeus, dear


  boys. His house and all his possessions are everlasting’ [ Menelaus ]
• ’But when it comes to men, I feel


  that few or none can rival me in wealth’ [ Menelaus ]
• ‘I have had much sorrow in my life


  and have already lost one loverly dwelling full of precious things’ [ Menelaus ]
• ’One man among them, whose loss when I


  brood over it makes sleep and eating hateful to me’ [ Menelaus ]
• ‘It was Odysseus who strove


  the hardest and achieved the most’ [ Menelaus ]
• Helen came down from her lofty


  Perfumed room, looking like Artemis with her golden distaff
• Helen sat down on the chair, with a footstool for 


  her feet, and at once asked her husband about everything
• Shall I withhold the truth, or speak


  The truth? I feel that I must speak‘ [ Helen ]
• ‘Surely this must be

  great-hearted Odysseus’ son Telemachus’ [ Helen ]
• ‘Odysseus’ feet were just the


  same, and so were his hands’ [ Menelaus ]
• ‘He is too bashful 


  to speak uninvited in front of you’ [ Peisistratus ]
• ‘For a son, when his father is


  gone, has many difficulties to cope with at home’ [ Peisitratus ]
• Helen of Argos, child


  of Zeus, broke down And wept
• ‘You spoke and acted with the discretion of


  a much older man. You talk such good sense, you’re the true son of your father’ [ Menelaus ]
• She slipped a drug that had the

  power of banishing all painful memories
• ‘He made his way into the Trojan


  city, and was not detected by anyone’ [ Helen ]
• In front of Odysseus’ palace, the suitors


  in their usual high and mighty way were once again amusing themselves
• What did the Suitors decide?

  They will kill Telemachus when he returns
• When Penelope heard this her knees


  trembled and her heart grew faint
• ‘Is there any woman of my time whom Zeus 


  has treated worse than me?‘ [ Penelope ]
• In this way Eurycleia hushed Penelope’s


  Sobs and cleared her eyes of tears
• It was here that the Achaean 


  lords set their ambush for Telemachus