Greek myths

Here is a collection of phrases and memorable lines of Greek myth. Most of the material is anonymous except the works of the Iliad and the Odyssey, by Homer.

Direct Quotes

• Φοβού τους Δαναούς και δώρα φέροντες.
  • Translation:(Beware Greeks even though are bearing gifts).
  • Trojan Horse or the Iliad

• The Greeks used a wooden horse to get into Troy.
  • Trojan Horse

• When Pandora opened the jar, all the evil flooded out into the world.
  • Pandora's box

• The only thing left inside the jar was Hope.
  • Pandora's Box

• Everything King Midas touched turned to gold.
  • King Midas

• King Minos built a labyrinth to house the monster.
  • Minotaur

• Flora and Fauna
  • Two Greek Goddesses, the first of plants, the second of animals.

• Icarus flew too close to the sun.
  • Daedulus and Icarus

• The Twelve Tasks of Heracles.
  • Heracles-later Romanised as the 'The Twelve Tasks of Hercules'

• A Sisyphean Task.
  • From the myth of Sisyphus-means a never ending task

• The phoenix rises from the ashes

• Aphrodite rose from the waves
  • The birth of Aphrodite (a well-known allusion)

Less Precise Quotes

Theseus (from "Heroes, Gods and Monsters" (a collection of Greek Myths & Legends))

Theseus: It's a complete honor to have my head bashed in with a club like this.

Theseus: (after killing Procrustes) So you have done to travellers, so shall you endure; you've made your bed, now lie on it.