Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Thersites? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
After Diomedes leaves, Cressida speaks in dismay of her own inconstancy, while, unseen, Thersites comments cynically on the whole interview.
Thersites is insulting Ajax just by saying his name.
Odysseus confronts and beats Thersites, a common soldier who voices discontent about fighting Agamemnon's war.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is the very vice which Homer attacks in the odious character of Thersites.
He was a species of Thersites, and no dread of punishment could control his railing.
And the scene, ever the scene, is Act V, scene 4, where Diomedes and Cressida are observed by Ulysses and Troilus, who are observed by Thersites.
Thus spoke Thersites, reviling Agamemnon, the shepherd of the people.
She ceased to look on him as something wantonly malevolent, a Thersites recklessly slandering his betters.
Favorinus extolled Thersites, and wrote in praise of a quartan ague.
At sight of him, Homer's Thersites came to the mind of Petronius.
An additional and well-marked feature being wanted to convince Penelope, the writer has taken the hunched shoulders of Thersites and put them on to Eurybates' back.
