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The Odyssey Pride Quotes Page 5
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 #13 (Odysseus:) ‘Leave blows alone, do not press me too hard, or you may make me angry so that, old as I am, I may give you a bloody chest and mouth. Then I could have peace, and still more of it tomorrow, for I do not think you will make your way back here a second time to the house of Odysseus, son of Laertes.’ (18.20-24) |
Still, Odysseus can’t hold out in the land of humility forever. He flaunts his old glory as a warrior, even though it risks foiling his beggar disguise.
| Quote #14 (Penelope:) ‘Eurymachos, all my excellence, my beauty and figure, were ruined by the immortals at that time when the Argives took ship for Ilion, and with them went my husband, Odysseus. If he were to come back to me and take care of my life, then my reputation would be more great and splendid.’ (18.251-255) |
Penelope considers her as beauty lost with Odysseus’s departure. This is particularly humble of her, since Athene has just given her a super-special goddess makeover.
| Quote #15 (Antinoös:) ‘Ah, wretched stranger, you have no sense, not even a little. Is it not enough that you dine in peace, among us, who are violent men, and are deprived of no fair portion, but listen to our conversation and what we say? But thereis no other vagabond and newcomer who is allowed to hear us talk. The honeyed wine has hurt you, as it has distracted others as well, who gulp it down without drinking in season.’ (21.288-294) |
Antinoös obviously esteems himself above the beggar and sees the man as unfit for the table. Ironically, the true identity of the beggar far outranks him, and Antinoös is actually unjustified. Additionally, Antinoös has been repeatedly berated for looking like a nobleman but acting like a tramp. Both in his case and the case of the beggar, appearances are deceiving.
