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Tecmessa is an enslaved Trojan captive given to the Greek warrior Ajax. She claims to have fallen in love with Ajax and has a son by him. Initially, Briseis finds Tecmessa’s professed love for Ajax threatening and worthy of contempt. Moreover, Briseis interprets Tecmessa’s compulsive eating as a sign of her secret unhappiness. Eventually, however, Tecmessa and Briseis become friends.
Tecmessa Quotes in The Silence of the Girls
The The Silence of the Girls quotes below are all either spoken by Tecmessa or refer to Tecmessa. 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 6
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“It’s not his fault,” she said. “He has these awful nightmares, sometimes he wakes up, he thinks I’m a Trojan.”
“You are a Trojan,” I said.
“No, I mean a fighter,” Tecmessa said.
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Chapter 45
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We’re going to survive—our songs, our stories. They’ll never be able to forget us. Decades after the last man who fought at Troy is dead, their sons will remember the songs their Trojan mothers sang to them.
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Tecmessa Quotes in The Silence of the Girls
The The Silence of the Girls quotes below are all either spoken by Tecmessa or refer to Tecmessa. 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 6
Quotes
“It’s not his fault,” she said. “He has these awful nightmares, sometimes he wakes up, he thinks I’m a Trojan.”
“You are a Trojan,” I said.
“No, I mean a fighter,” Tecmessa said.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 45
Quotes
We’re going to survive—our songs, our stories. They’ll never be able to forget us. Decades after the last man who fought at Troy is dead, their sons will remember the songs their Trojan mothers sang to them.
