Exquisite figure, as of heaven's shaping, waited beside a pillar as he passed...
"Fare well, stranger; in your land remember me who met and saved you.
It is worth your thought". - Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

"Some day, perhaps, remembering even this Will be a pleasure. We are going on Through whatsoever chance and change, until We come to Latium, where the fates point out A quiet dwelling-place, and Troy recovered. Endure, and keep yourself for better days. He kept to himself the sorrow in the heart, Wearing, for them, a mask of hopefulness." - Translated by Rolfe Humphries

"So speaking glorious Hektor held out his arms to his baby,
who shrank back to his fair-girdled nurse's bosom
screaming, and frightened at the aspect of his own father,
terrified as he saw the bronze and the crest with its horse-hair,
nodding dreadfully, as he thought, from the peak of the helmet.
Then his beloved father laughed out, and his honoured mother,
and at once glorious Hektor lifted from his head the helmet
and laid it in all its shining upon the ground. Then taking
up his dear son he tossed him about in his arms, and kissed him,
and lifted his voice in prayer to Zeus and the other immortals:
'Zeus, and you other immortals, grant that this boy, who is my son,
may be as I am, pre-eminent among the Trojans,
great in strength, as am I, and rule strongly over Ilion;
and some day let them say of him: "He is better by far than this father",
as he comes in from the fighting; and let him kill his enemy,
and bring home the blooded spoils, and delight the heart of his mother'."
- Translated by Richmond Lattimore

Aeschylus
Oresteia -	"Sent forth from the palace I have come to convey libations to the sound of sharp blows of my hands. My cheek is marked with bloody gashes where my nails have cut fresh furrows. And yet through all my life my heart is fed with lamentation. Rips are torn by my griefs through the linen web of my garment, torn in the cloth that covers my breast, the cloth of robes struck for the sake of my mirthless misfortunes."
Prometheus Bound -	"It was mortal man to whom I gave great privileges and for that was yoked in this unyieldig harness. I hunted out the secret spring of fire that filled the narthex stem, which when revealed became the teacher of each craft to men a great resource. This is the sin committed for which I stand accountant, and I pay nailed in my chains under the open sky. So let the curling tendril of the fire from the lightning bolt be sent against me: let the air be stirred with thunderclaps, the winds in savage blasts convulsing all the world." - Translated by David Greene
Sophocles
Antigone -	"Yes, it was not Zeus that made the proclamation; nor did Justice, which lives with those below, enact such laws as that, for mankind. I did not believe your proclamation had such power to enable one who will someday die to override God's ordinances, unwritten and secure. They are not of today and yesterday; they live forever; none knows when first they were. These are the laws whose penalties I would not incur from the gods, through fear of any man's temper." - Translated by David Greene
Oedipus the King -	"If a man walks with haughtiness of hand or word and gives no heed to Justice and the shrines of Gods despises - may an evil doom smite him for his ill-starred pride of heart!- if he reaps gains without justice and will not hold from impiety and his fingers itch for untouchable things. When such things are done, what man shall contrive to shield his soul from the shafts of the God? When such deeds are held in honour, why should I honour the Gods in the dance?" - Translated by David Greene
The Women of Trachis	- Kouden touton hoti me Zeus "Maiden, come from the house with us. You have seen a terrible death and agonies, many and strange, and there is nothing here which is not Zeus." - Translated by Michael Jameson
Euripides
The Medea -	"For in other ways a woman Is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold Steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, No other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood." - Translated by Rex Warner
Hippolytus-	"The life of man entire is misery: he finds no resting place, o haven from calamity. But something other dearer still than life the darkness hides and mist encompasses, we are proved luckless lovers of this thing that glitters in the underworld: no man can tell us of the stuff of it, expounding what is, and what is not: we know nothing of it. Idly, we drift, on idle stories carried." - Translated by David Greene
Inferno - Dante Alighieri The Histories - Herodutus Poetics - Aristotle Symposium - Plato The Epic of Gilgamesh "No one can see death, no one can see the face of death, no one can hear the voice of death, yet there is savage death that snaps off mankind. For how long do we build a household? For how long do we seal a document? For how long do brothers share the inheritance? For how long is there to be jealousy in the land? For how long has the river risen and brought the overflowing waters, so that dragonflies drift down the river? The face that could gaze upon the face of the Sun has never existed ever. How alike are the sleeping and the dead. The image of Death cannot be depicted. Yes, you are a human being, a man?" - Translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs