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Antaurus (“Suicide”)
Arete is Dienekes’s wife. She was first married to Iatrokles. She has several daughters but is subsequently barren, never bearing a son. She is an audacious woman, shaping Spartan events behind the scenes and commanding men’s respect. She intervenes to save her nephew Rooster’s son’s life, revealing that the baby is actually Dienekes’s. She has a maternal fondness for Xeo.
Arete Quotes in Gates of Fire
The Gates of Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Arete or refer to Arete. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 20
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“The gods make us love whom we will not,” the lady declared, “and disrequite whom we will. They slay those who should live and spare those who deserve to die. They give with one hand and take with the other, answerable only to their own unknowable laws […] Now, inspired by blind impulse,” she spoke toward me, “I have saved the life of this boy, my brother’s bastard’s son, and lost my husband’s in the process.”
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Arete Quotes in Gates of Fire
The Gates of Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Arete or refer to Arete. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 20
Quotes
“The gods make us love whom we will not,” the lady declared, “and disrequite whom we will. They slay those who should live and spare those who deserve to die. They give with one hand and take with the other, answerable only to their own unknowable laws […] Now, inspired by blind impulse,” she spoke toward me, “I have saved the life of this boy, my brother’s bastard’s son, and lost my husband’s in the process.”
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