item: #1 of 8 id: 10096 author: Euripides title: The Trojan women of Euripides date: None words: 18945 flesch: 91 summary: Zeus shall send rain, long rain and flaw of driven Hail, and a whirling darkness blown from heaven; To me his levin-light he promiseth O'er ships and men, for scourging and hot death: Do thou make wild the roads of the sea, and steep With war of waves and yawning of the deep, Till dead men choke Euboea's curling bay. They were great things to thee!... keywords: andromache; child; dead; death; fire; god; greek; hand; hath; heart; hecuba; helen; king; love; men; talthybius; thee; thou; thy; troy; war; woe; woman cache: 10096.txt plain text: 10096.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 1973 author: Lang, Andrew title: Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of Cities date: None words: 32301 flesch: 78 summary: I am very angry with many men and women in the world, said Autolycus, so let the child's name be _A Man of Wrath_, which, in Greek, was Odysseus. The horses of Achilles cleared the ditch, and Patroclus drove them between the Trojans and the wall of their own town, slaying many men, and, chief of all, Sarpedon, king of the Lycians; and round the body of Sarpedon the Trojans rallied under Hector, and the fight swayed this way and that, and there was such a noise of spears and swords smiting shields and helmets as when many woodcutters fell trees in a glen of the hills. keywords: achilles; agamemnon; aias; armour; battle; dead; diomede; fight; great; greeks; hector; helen; king; man; men; menelaus; paris; patroclus; ships; spear; trojans; troy; ulysses cache: 1973.txt plain text: 1973.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 257 author: Chaucer, Geoffrey title: Troilus and Criseyde date: None words: 69930 flesch: 91 summary: Ful dredfully tho gan she stonde stille, And took it nought, but al hir humble chere Gan for to chaunge, and seyde, `Scrit ne bille, 1130 Eleyne, in al hir goodly softe wyse, Gan him saluwe, and womanly to pleye, And seyde, `Ywis, ye moste alweyes aryse! keywords: al hir; al myn; al thy; allas; alle; alwey; anoon; ben; beste; bet; bothe; cause; chere; come; criseyde; day; deeth; dere; doon; doun; drede; eek; faste; fere; folk; forth; fro; ful; gan; gan hir; god; good; goon; grace; hadde; hath; hem; herte; hir; hir herte; ioye; lady; lat; leve; list; longe; lord; love; lyf; man; men; mighte; myn; myn herte; nece; newe; nought; ofte; outen; owene; pandare; pandarus; peyne; quod; right; self; seyde; seyn; shal; sholde; sin; som; sone; sorwe; swich; telle; thee; ther; thing; thou; thoughte; thy; thyn; til; toun; troilus; trouthe; troye; tyme; wel; wente; whan; wher; wis; wol; wolde; woot; word; wordes; wyse; yow cache: 257.txt plain text: 257.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 32326 author: Lang, Andrew title: Tales of Troy and Greece date: None words: 94131 flesch: 82 summary: To other men, no doubt, they would have offered other pleasures. 'I am very angry with many men and women in the world,' said Autolycus, 'so let the child's name be _A Man of Wrath_,' which, in Greek, was Odysseus. keywords: achilles; agamemnon; beautiful; day; dead; father; gods; gold; great; greeks; hand; head; heart; hector; helen; home; house; king; left; man; men; menelaus; mother; night; paris; people; perseus; round; saw; sea; set; ship; son; spear; sword; telemachus; theseus; thought; trojans; troy; ulysses; water; way cache: 32326.txt plain text: 32326.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 35171 author: Euripides title: The Trojan Women of Euripides date: None words: 18835 flesch: 92 summary: Zeus shall send rain, long rain and flaw of driven Hail, and a whirling darkness blown from heaven; To me his levin-light he promiseth O'er ships and men, for scourging and hot death: Do thou make wild the roads of the sea, and steep With war of waves and yawning of the deep, Till dead men choke Euboea's curling bay. [_He moves as though to go, but turns to_ HECUBA, _and speaks more gently_. keywords: andromache; child; dead; death; god; greek; hand; hath; heart; hecuba; helen; king; love; men; talthybius; thee; thou; thy; troy; war; woe; woman cache: 35171.txt plain text: 35171.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 60871 author: Farmer, Philip José title: Heel date: None words: 5582 flesch: 92 summary: * * It was then Apollo projected fury into Hector so that he turned to battle the man he thought was Achilles. Apollo, invisible behind him, would shoot the arrow that would strike Achilles' foot if Paris' arrow bounced off the force field. keywords: achilles; apollo; director; patroclos; script; thetis; trojans cache: 60871.txt plain text: 60871.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 658 author: Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century title: The Fall of Troy date: None words: 81426 flesch: 79 summary: Still clashed the grappling hosts, Man slaying man: aye bloodier waxed the fray As rained the blows: corpse upon corpse was flung Confusedly, like thunder-drops, or flakes Of snow, or hailstones, by the wintry blast At Zeus' behest strewn over the long hills And forest-boughs; so by a pitiless doom Slain, friends with foes in heaps on heaps were strown. So man slew man in fight; but more than all Eurypylus hurled doom on many a foe. keywords: achilles; aias; argives; arms; battle; blood; child; day; dead; death; doom; dust; earth; fair; father; feet; fell; fight; fire; foes; forth; gods; great; grief; hands; hath; heart; heaven; high; host; king; lay; life; long; lord; man; men; mid; mighty; o'er; priam; round; sea; ships; slain; slew; son; sons; soul; spake; spear; strength; strife; swift; thee; thou; thy; trojans; troy; war; wild; wrath; yea; zeus cache: 658.txt plain text: 658.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 806 author: Sophocles title: Philoktetes date: None words: 13357 flesch: 94 summary: He gathered no grain sown in holy earth, nor the food that living men enjoy, except when he shot his feathered arrows and filled his stomach with what he took. I will have no part of their company, where the worse is stronger than the better, where noble men die while cowards rule. keywords: bow; boy; chorus; gods; man; men; neoptolemos; odysseus; philoktetes; son; things; troy; words cache: 806.txt plain text: 806.txt