odyssey quotes

• "resourceful man" (b.1, proem)
• "It is their own transgressions which bring them suffering that was not their destiny" (b.1)
• "lion-hearted Odysseus"
• "cold lover, ardent lady" (b.5)
• Simile comparing Odysseus seeing land to the relief a man's children feel when he recovers from illness. (b.5)
• "she settles even men's disputes" (b.7)
• "much-enduring Odysseus"
• "it was you, lady, who gave me back my life" (b.8)
• Simile comparing Odysseus crying after hearing Demodocus's song about Troy to a woman weeping over her husband's body in battle before being sold into slavery. (b.8)
• "I am Odysseus, Laertes' son. The whole world talks of my stratagems and my fame has reached the heavens" (b.9)
• Simile comparing Odysseus's men to puppies as Polyphemus kills them (b.9)
• "carried them off like fishes on a spear" (b.10)
• Simile comparing Odysseus being welcomed by his men after returning from Circe's hut to frisking calves greeting their mother (b.10)
• "I would rather work the soil as a serf on hire to some landless impoverished peasant than be king of all these lifeless dead" (b.11)
• Simile comparing Odysseus wanting to go home to a ploughman "yearning for his supper" after a long days work (b.13)
• "Telemachus flung his arms round his noble father's neck and burst into tears" (b.16)
• "encouraging words were on his lips but death for Telemachus was in his heart" (b.16)
• "the point passed clean through his tender throat" (b.22)
• Simile comparing the maids being hung to doves and thrushes (b.22)
• "patient, good Odysseus" (b.23)
• Reverse simile comparing Penelope seeing Odysseus again to a sailor seeing land after a ship wreck (b.23)
• “his eyes were wet with weeping“ (b.5)