Achaean Camp
“The sequence of images moves with frantic speed through my tired head; words cannot keep up with them.” (Pg. 44)
The Lion's Gate
“…the temperate Menelaus, the keenly observant Odysseus. Agamemnon, whom I instantly disliked? Diomedes of Argos, a lanky fellow. They stood and stared. ‘In Troy men don’t look at women that way…’” (Pg. 81)
"For the Greeks there is no alternative
but either truth or lies, right or wrong, victory or defeat, friend or
enemy, life or death. They think differently than we do. What cannot be
seen, smelled, heard, touched, does not exist. It is the other alternative
that they crush between clear-cut distinctions, the third alternative,
which in their view does not exist, the smiling vital force that is able
to generate itself from itself over and over; the undivided, spirit in
life, life in spirit. Anchises once said that the gift of empathy could
be more important for the Greeks than the accursed invention of iron. If
only they could embrace someone besides themselves within the iron concepts
of good and evil. Us, for example." (Pg. 106-107)
