Troilus : son of Hecuba & Priam.
... me that wealth as my guerdon, Now my reproach, your fathers who saw not the Greeks round their ramparts: They were not cooped by an upstart race in the walls of Apollo, Saw not Hector slain and Troilus dragged by his coursers. Far over wrathful Jaxartes they rode; the shaken Achaian Prostrate adored your strength who now shouts at your portals and conquers Then when Antenor guided Troy, this old... ruled her. All now is changed, these mutter and sigh to you, all now is ended; Strength has renounced you, Fate has finished the thread of her spinning. Hector is dead, he walks in the shadows; Troilus fights not; Resting his curls on the asphodel he has forgotten his country: Strong Sarpedon lies in Bellerophon's city sleeping: Memnon is slain and the blood of Rhesus has dried on the Troad: ... battles, armipotent Penthesilea? If there were none but these only, if hosts came not surging behind them, Young men burning-eyed to outdare all the deeds of their elders, Each in his beauty a Troilus, each in his valour a Hector, Yet were the measures poised in the equal balance of Ares. Who then compels you, O people unconquered, to sink down abjuring All that was Troy? For O, if she yield ...
... seem to me the most pathetic lines a lover ever spoke, pathetic by a heart-breaking homeliness verging on naivete. You may have heard of Troilus and Cressida. Troilus was a Trojan, a brother of Hector, and Cressida was a Greek girl. She had sworn fidelity, and Troilus had given her a brooch as a sign of his love. Once he sees on the coat of Diomedes this very gift of his to Cressida. He says to her: ...
... metrical rhythm no less than his language to the substance of his thought. The physical and the psychological are also a unity with him or else they run suggestively parallel as when 1. Cf. Troilus and Cressida, Act III, Scene 3, Patroclus tells how Cupid will unloose his "amorous fold" from Achilles's neck And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane Be shook to air. Page 57 ...
... does not spring out of the same experience of 'this litel spot of erthe'. I am afraid here is a bit of ambiguity. As you who have written 'The Eighth Sphere' know, the last phrase is from Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. You seem to suggest that it encourages emphasis on terrestrial matters and that English poets choose to be full of earthly sensations and feelings and that therefore they are able to ...
... deeply felt Adonais? Or look at Shelley's adoption of the still older terza rima of Dante for his Triumph of Life. Talking of subject, can we rightly disapprove of Chaucer or Shakespeare writing of Troilus and Cressida or Keats choosing to write of the fall of Hyperion or, on a smaller though not poetically inferior scale, Stephen Phillips conjuring up the story of Marpessa, Idas and Apollo? In our own ...
... princes of Troy, which was at that time ruled by king Priam. It is said that Priam had fifty sons and countless daughters. The first born son was Hector, followed by Paris, Deiphobus, Helen, Polydorus, Troilus and others; the best known of his daughters were Creousa, Paodice, Polyxene and Cassandra, who was gifted with the power of divination.. Under the inspiration of Aphrodite, Paris visited Sparta ...
... dignified feeling, is the phrase about Priam's wife Hecuba who has suffered the loss of her most virile and valiant son as well as of the son who was most boyishly beautiful: Mother once of Troilus, mother once of Hector. 3 An entire history of rare happiness unremittingly snatched away is touched off, with a supreme restraint twice repeated, by that diminutive pregnancy, the adverb "once" ...
... clene out of your minde Ye hen me cast, and Ine can nor may, Page 105 For all the worlde, within my herte finde T'unloven you a quarter of a day. from the poet's Troilus and Criseide. Sethna focuses on the 'interpretative power' (another Arnoldian concept in origin) which Sri Aurobindo identifies in Shakespeare's poetry, he cites and discusses the astute ...
... instead of my dear Hector... But I — dear god, my life so cursed by fate! — I fathered hero sons in the wide realm of Troy and now, now not a single one is left, I tell you. Mestor the indestructible, Troilus, passionate horseman and Hector, a god among men — no son of a mortal man, he seemed a deathless god's. But Ares killed them all and all he left me are these, these disgraces — liars, dancers, heroes ...
... of the hero Achilles. Thrace: country north of the Aegean and the Hellespont; its inhabitants fought as Trojan allies. Tripod: a vessel on three legs. Trojan, son of Priam. Troilus: Trojan, son of Priam. Troy: This city (also called Troas or Ilios or Ilion or Ilium) was located on the western shore of modern Turkey directly on the trade routes between Greece and the ...
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