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: "So he spoke, and the Argives shouted aloud, as surf crashing / against a sheer ness, driven by the south wind descending, / some cliff out-jutting, left never alone by the waves from /mall the winds that blow, as they rise one place and another." (II.394-7) | : "So he spoke, and the Argives shouted aloud, as surf crashing / against a sheer ness, driven by the south wind descending, / some cliff out-jutting, left never alone by the waves from /mall the winds that blow, as they rise one place and another." (II.394-7) | ||
== Book III == | |||
'''weaving''' -- first appearance of Helen, she's "weaving a great web, / a red folding robe, and working into it the numerous struggles / of Trojans" (III.125-7) | '''weaving''' -- first appearance of Helen, she's "weaving a great web, / a red folding robe, and working into it the numerous struggles / of Trojans" (III.125-7) | ||
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Aphrodite tries to fool Helen (III.385ff); lays her hand on her robes; Helen goes to Paris, "shrouding herself about in the luminous spun robe" (III.419) | Aphrodite tries to fool Helen (III.385ff); lays her hand on her robes; Helen goes to Paris, "shrouding herself about in the luminous spun robe" (III.419) | ||
== Book IV == | |||
women '''weaving''' -- Menelaus' wound is compared to cloth woven by women (IV. 141ff) | |||
warriors fall like a '''tree''' (IV.482) | |||
== Book V == | |||
Aeneas injured (V.302) | |||
Aphrodite injured; "the spear tore the skin driven clean on through the immortal / robe that the very Graces had woven for her carefully" (V.337-8) | |||
Athena puts on her war tunic (V.735) | |||
== Book VI == | |||
ladies of Troy offer Athene a robe (VI.85ff) | |||
story of Bellerophontes | |||
Revision as of 18:22, 13 December 2010
Book II
multitudes:
- "Like the swarms of clustering bees that issue forever / in fresh bursts from the hollow in the stone, and hang like / bunched grapes as they hover beneat the flowers in spring time / fluttering in swarms together this way and that way, / so the many nations of men from the ships and the shelters / along the front of the deep sea beach marched in order / by companies to the assembly, and Rumour walked blazing among them, / Zeus' messenger, to hasten them along." (II.87-94) c.f. FQ
- "As obliterating fire lights up a vast forest/ along the flares of a mountain, and the flare shows far off,/ So as they marched, from the magnificent bronze gleam went/ dazzling all about through the upper air to the heaven./ These, as the multitudinous nations of birds winged,/ of geese, and of cranes, and of swans long throated/ in the Asian meadow beside the Kaystrian waters/ this way and that way make their flights in the pride of their wings, then/ settle in clashing swarms and the whole meadow echoes with them,/ so of these multitudinous tribes from the ships and/ shelters poured to the plain of Skamandros, and the earth beneath their/ feet and under the feet of their horses thundered horribly." (II.455-466)
Therisites, good with words, excellent orator, but says wrong/foolish words (II.~230)
- "So he spoke, and the Argives shouted aloud, as surf crashing / against a sheer ness, driven by the south wind descending, / some cliff out-jutting, left never alone by the waves from /mall the winds that blow, as they rise one place and another." (II.394-7)
Book III
weaving -- first appearance of Helen, she's "weaving a great web, / a red folding robe, and working into it the numerous struggles / of Trojans" (III.125-7)
perspective of the Achaians through Helen's eyes, as asked for by a Trojan (III.180ff)
Aphrodite tries to fool Helen (III.385ff); lays her hand on her robes; Helen goes to Paris, "shrouding herself about in the luminous spun robe" (III.419)
Book IV
women weaving -- Menelaus' wound is compared to cloth woven by women (IV. 141ff)
warriors fall like a tree (IV.482)
Book V
Aeneas injured (V.302)
Aphrodite injured; "the spear tore the skin driven clean on through the immortal / robe that the very Graces had woven for her carefully" (V.337-8)
Athena puts on her war tunic (V.735)
Book VI
ladies of Troy offer Athene a robe (VI.85ff)
story of Bellerophontes