Book 11 - The book of the dead

    Cards (17)

    • "I was stirred with pity"
    • "Son Laertes, favourite of Zeus, Odysseus of the nimble wits" (Tiresias)
    • "I will do. Nothing shall be forgotten" (Odysseus)
    • "I would not allow her to approach the blood first"
    • "You will find trouble too in your house - insolent men" (Tiresias)
    • "You and your friends may yet reach Ithaca, though not without suffering" (Tiresias)
    • "You must set out once more" (Tiresias)
    • "She [Penelope] has schooled her heart to patience, though her eyes are never free from tears" (Anticleia)
    • "Three times in my eagerness to clasp her to me"
    • "Wicked woman [Clytemnestra]" (Agamemnon)
    • "There is nothing more degraded or shameful than a woman who can contemplate and carry out deeds like the hideous crime of murdering the husband" (Agamemnon)
    • "She has branded with infamy not herself alone but the whole of her sex" (Agamemnon)
    • "Never be too trustful of your wife" (Agamemnon_
    • "Not that your wife, Odysseus, will murder you. Icarius' daughter is far too loyal in her thoughts and feelings" (Agamemnon)
    • "Do not sail openly into port" (Agamemnon)
    • "Do not make light of death, illustrious Odysseus" (Achilles)
    • "If I could return for a single moment to my father's house" (Achilles)
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