Black Ships Before Troy Quotes

"But if we both live through this night, there is another gift that I may ask of you. One that will cost you neither land nor gold nor men in the giving."

• Agamemnon to Achilles

• Odysseus to Helen

• Achilles to Briseis

• Odysseus to Menelaus

"If the gods were kinder, I would not find myself bound to one who must be urged into battle by his woman."

• Andromache to Hector

• Helen to Menelaus

• Helen to Paris

• Oenone to Paris

"Under the city walls men are dying because of the evil that you wrought ten years ago! Up now, leave this playing with your weapons as though they were toys. Get your armor on and join them!"

• Hector to Paris

• Odysseus to Achilles

• Aphrodite to Paris

• Helen to Paris

"If you go back, it is your death and you will not return to us again!"

• Helen to Paris

• Briseis to Achilles

• Andromache to Hector

• Priam to Hector

"I am the high king! I have the power, even as you say, and let you not forget it! also, as high king I have the right, and let you not forgot that either, you who are no more than a prince among other princes!"

• Ajax to Hector

• Zeus to Poseidon

• Agamemnon to Achilles

• King Priam to Paris

"O my friends, leave that thing untouched! Do you think that the Greeks would leave us a gift without treachery in it? Either they have left men of their own shut within it, ready to come forth against us, or there is some evil magic in the creature itself to do us harm!"

• Laucoon to Greek Council

• Cassandra to King Priam

• Laucoon to Trojan Council

• Odysseus to King Priam

"Very proud you must be of of your archer's skills, and of you arrow that slew the great Achilles; yet I also have my skill, and the bow in my hands was drawn by the mighty Heracles himself!"

• Ajax to Hector

• Philoctetes to Paris

• Achilles to Hector

• Patroclus to Paris

"Always you have dealt gently with me; but I wish that I had died before I left my marriage-lord and my babe, shameless as I am, and came with Paris across the sea to bring so much sorrow upon us all!"

• Aphrodite to Paris

• Helen to Odysseus

• Andromache to Hector

• Helen to King Priam

Goddess of wisdom; helps the Greeks

• Athene

• Hera

• Aphrodite

Trojan King; father of Hector and Paris

• Peleus

• Priam

• Agamemnon