1. Homer, Iliad, 6.357-6.358, 13.227, 22.304-22.305 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •troades on immortality in poetry •poetry, troades on immortality in Found in books: Pucci (2016) 79, 80 | 6.357. / my brother, since above all others has trouble encompassed thy heart because of shameless me, and the folly of Alexander; on whom Zeus hath brought an evil doom, that even in days to come we may be a song for men that are yet to be. Then made answer to her great Hector of the flashing helm: 6.358. / my brother, since above all others has trouble encompassed thy heart because of shameless me, and the folly of Alexander; on whom Zeus hath brought an evil doom, that even in days to come we may be a song for men that are yet to be. Then made answer to her great Hector of the flashing helm: 13.227. / nor doth any through dread withdraw him from evil war, but even thus, I ween, must it be the good pleasure of the son of Cronos, supreme in might, that the Achaeans should perish here far from Argos, and have no name. But, Thoas, seeing that aforetime thou wast ever staunch in fight, and dost also urge on another, wheresoever thou seest one shrinking from fight, 22.304. / Now of a surety is evil death nigh at hand, and no more afar from me, neither is there way of escape. So I ween from of old was the good pleasure of Zeus, and of the son of Zeus, the god that smiteth afar, even of them that aforetime were wont to succour me with ready hearts; but now again is my doom come upon me. Nay, but not without a struggle let me die, neither ingloriously, 22.305. / but in the working of some great deed for the hearing of men that are yet to be. So saying, he drew his sharp sword that hung beside his flank, a great sword and a mighty, and gathering himself together swooped like an eagle of lofty flight that darteth to the plain through the dark clouds to seize a tender lamb or a cowering hare; |
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| 3. Euripides, Trojan Women, 1240, 1242-1245, 1248-1250, 1291-1292, 356-367, 448-449, 884-888, 1323 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pucci (2016) 80, 81 |
