The Odyssey Justice Quotes Page 4

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How we cite the quotes:
Citations follow this format: (Book.Line). We used Richmond Lattimore's translation. Very conveniently, Lattimore’s English edition follows the Greek exactly line-for-line.

Quote #10

(Odysseus:) ‘Keep your joy in your heart, old dame; stop, do not raise up the cry. It is not piety to glory so over slain men. These were destroyed by the doom of the gods and their own hard actions […].’ (22.411-413)

Odysseus reminds Eurykleia that the suitors were not killed for personal pleasure (therefore, they should not rejoice at the fallen men). Rather, the men had to be killed for reasons of justice.

Quote #11

(Athene:) ‘Hold back, men of Ithaka, from the wearisome fighting, so that most soon, and without blood, you can settle everything.’ (24.531-532)

Athene maintains that justice need not always be served at the end of a sword.

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