troilus in English

noun
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a Trojan prince, the son of Priam and Hecuba, killed by Achilles. In medieval legends of the Trojan War he is portrayed as the forsaken lover of Cressida.

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1. First up is Troilus and Cressida in Maori.

2. There they witness Diomedes successfully seducing Cressida after taking Troilus' sleeve from her.

3. “Men may the wise atrenne, and naught Atrede.” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, quote from Troilus and Criseyde “For thus men seyth, "That on thenketh the beere, But al another thenketh his ledere.” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, quote from Troilus and Criseyde

4. Therefore the genre of Troilus and Cressida is as inconstant as the characters it describes.

5. Cressida's action is in keeping with her flirtatious character, which she herself can analyse: Troilus, farewell.

6. I don't know why George likes these things, but, as Shakespeare's Troilus says, "What is aught, but as 'tis valued?"

7. Shakespeare Character in "Troilus and Cressida." Cassandra was a Trojan princess, the daughter of Priam and Hecuba

8. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene 1,[1] Come, come, Thersites, help to trim my tent: This night in Banqueting must all be spent

9. Chaucer (1343–1400) used the word to refer to a proud and ostentatious person in his simile "proud a pekok" in Troilus and Criseyde (Book I, line 210).

10. ‘The poem ends with an Adjuration to the young to repair home from worldly vanity and to place their trust, not in unstable fortune as Troilus did, but in God.’ Word of the day hey up

11. ‘The poem ends with an Adjuration to the young to repair home from worldly vanity and to place their trust, not in unstable fortune as Troilus did, but in God.’ Word of the day play-play

12. Part 2 is "The Libation Bearers" and Part 3 is "The Eumenides." Now "Agamemnon" was written centuries before Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida." Nevertheless, the events of "Agamemnon" take place after Shakespeare's play.