All 50 Uses of

bronze

in

The Odyssey

She seized the rugged spear tipped with a bronze point—
p. 80.9

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

Gripping her bronze spear,
p. 81.0

Pausing beside her there, he clasped her right hand
and relieving her at once of her long bronze spear,
p. 81.6

My own name is Mentes, lord of the Taphian men who love their oars. And here I've come, just now, with ship and crew, sailing the wine-dark sea to foreign ports of call, to Temese, out for bronze—our cargo gleaming iron.
p. 83.6

bronze = a high-quality metal

Odysseus sailed that way, you see, in his swift trim ship, hunting deadly poison to smear on his arrows' bronze heads.
p. 86.2

First go down to Pylos, question old King Nestor, then cross over to Sparta, to red-haired Menelaus, of all the bronze-armored Achaeans the last man back.
p. 86.9

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

Telemachus strode in too, a bronze spear in his grip
p. 93.6

...but Telemachus headed down to his father's storeroom, broad and vaulted, piled high with gold and bronze, chests packed with clothing, vats of redolent oil.
p. 104.1

bronze = a high-quality metal

As the sun sprang up, leaving the brilliant waters in its wake,
climbing the bronze sky to shower light on immortal gods
and mortal men across the plowlands ripe with grain—
p. 107.1 *

bronze = shining yellowish

Look, Pisistratus—joy of my heart, my friend—
the sheen of bronze, the blaze of gold and amber,
silver, ivory too, through all this echoing mansion!
Surely Zeus's court on Olympus must be just like this,
the boundless glory of all this wealth inside!
p. 126.8

bronze = a brownish metal made mostly of copper

not even if right before his eyes some enemy brought down
a brother or darling son with a sharp bronze blade.
p. 131.6

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

...he'd cut a troop of Trojans down with his long bronze sword,
p. 132.7

Many of them were killed, many survived as well,
but only two who captained your bronze-armored units
died on the way home—
p. 140.2

They're poised to cut Telemachus down with bronze swords on his way back home.
p. 146.9

Oh dear girl," Eurycleia the fond old nurse replied,
"kill me then with a bronze knife—no mercy—or let me live,
here in the palace—I'll hide nothing from you now!
p. 148.3

bronze = made of a brownish metal

on the twentieth day he will make his landfall, fertile Scheria,
the land of Phaeacians, close kin to the gods themselves,
who with all their hearts will prize him like a god
and send him off in a ship to his own beloved land,
giving him bronze and hoards of gold and robes—
more plunder than he could ever have won from Troy
if Odysseus had returned intact with his fair share.
p. 153.8

bronze = a brownish metal made mostly of copper

Come,
take bronze tools, cut your lengthy timbers,
make them into a broad-beamed raft
p. 157.6

She gave him a heavy bronze ax that fit his grip,
both blades well-honed, with a fine olive haft
lashed firm to its head.
p. 159.8

bronze = made of a type of metal

...Would to god
I'd died there too and met my fate that day the Trojans,
swarms of them, hurled at me with bronze spears,
fighting over the corpse of proud Achilles!
p. 162.1

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

Now as Odysseus approached Alcinous' famous house
a rush of feelings stirred within his heart,
bringing him to a standstill,
even before he crossed the bronze threshold ….
p. 182.3

bronze = a brownish metal made mostly of copper

So Hephaestus wailed
as the gods came crowding up to his bronze-floored house.
p. 201.8

I'll give the man this sword.
It's solid bronze and the hilt has silver studs,
p. 204.4

Then heat a bronze cauldron over the fire, boil water,
p. 205.2

and round its bulk the Trojans sat debating,
clashing, days on end. Three plans split their ranks:
either to hack open the hollow vault with ruthless bronze
or haul it up to the highest ridge and pitch it down the cliffs
or let it stand—a glorious offering made to pacify the gods—
and that, that final plan, was bound to win the day.
p. 207.9

Lining up,
both armies battled it out against our swift ships,
both raked each other with hurtling bronze lances.
p. 213.4

We reached the Aeolian island next, the home of Aeolus,
Hippotas' son, beloved by the gods who never die—
a great floating island it was, and round it all
huge ramparts rise of indestructible bronze
and sheer rock cliffs shoot up from sea to sky.
p. 230.3

and my bronze spear went punching clean through—
p. 235.6

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

We quickly shook lots in a bronze helmet—
p. 236.9

At that report I slung the hefty bronze blade
of my silver-studded sword around my shoulder,
slung my bow on too and told our comrade,
'Lead me back by the same way that you came.'
p. 238.7

The water heated soon,
and once it reached the boil in the glowing bronze
she eased me into a tub and bathed me from the cauldron,
mixing the hot and cold to suit my taste...
p. 241.7

bronze = a brownish metal made mostly of copper

and great armies of battle dead, stabbed by bronze spears,
p. 250.9

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

But once you have killed those suitors in your halls—
by stealth or in open fight with slashing bronze—
go forth once more, you must ….
p. 253.5

bronze = a brownish metal made mostly of copper

But what a soldier he laid low with a bronze sword:
p. 266.5

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

…Epeus built with labor, and I held full command
to spring our packed ambush open or keep it sealed,
all our lords and captains were wiping off their tears,
Never once did I see his glowing skin go pale;
he never flicked a tear from his cheeks, no,
he kept on begging me there to let him burst
from the horse, kept gripping his hilted sword,
his heavy bronze-tipped javelin, keen to loose
his fighting fury against the Trojans.
p. 266.9

bronze = made of a type of metal

I next caught sight of Orion, that huge hunter,
rounding up on the fields of asphodel those wild beasts
the man in life cut down on the lonely mountain-slopes,
brandishing in his hands the bronze-studded club
that time can never shatter.
p. 268.4

bronze = a brownish metal made mostly of copper

his story holding them spellbound down the shadowed halls
until Alcinous found the poise to say, "Odysseus,
now that you have come to my bronze-floored house,
..."
p. 286.3

they hurried down to the ship with handsome bronze gifts,
p. 287.2

they've set him down in Ithaca, sound asleep, and loaded the man
with boundless gifts—bronze and hoards of gold and robes-
aye, more plunder than he could ever have won from Troy
if Odysseus had returned intact with his fair share!
p. 290.9

I killed him just loping in from the fields—
with one quick stroke of my bronze spear
p. 295.3

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

while Odysseus hauled his treasures closer up,
the gold, durable bronze and finespun robes,
the Phaeacians' parting gifts.
p. 298.6

bronze = a brownish metal made mostly of copper

the entire town came streaming down at the break of day,
filling the river plain with chariots, ranks of infantry
and the gleam of bronze.
p. 310.2

The king told me he'd hosted the man in style,
befriended him on his way home to native land,
and showed me all the treasure Odysseus had amassed.
Bronze and gold and plenty of hard wrought iron,
enough to last a man and ten generations of his heirs—
so great the wealth stored up for him in the king's vaults!
p. 311.9

a handsome tripod, cauldron forged in bronze,
p. 322.2

bronze = a type of metal

And he took the prophet's honed bronze spear,
laid it down full-length on the rolling deck,
p. 328.5

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

But I'm proud to hail from Sidon paved in bronze
p. 333.1

bronze = a type of metal

—and give me a shield and two spears and a bronze helmet to fit this soldier's temples,
p. 388.2

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

I gave him a bronze sword myself,
p. 398.4

Off he ran to the room where the famous arms lay stored, took up four shields, eight spears, four bronze helmets ridged with horsehair crests and, loaded with these, ran back to reach his father's side in no time.
p. 443.1

Walls plated in bronze, crowned with a circling frieze
glazed as blue as lapis, ran to left and right
from outer gates to the deepest court recess,
and solid golden doors enclosed the palace.†
p. 182.4

Up from the bronze threshold silver doorposts rose
with silver lintel above, and golden handles too.†
p. 182.5 *

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Definitions:

(1) (bronze as in: bronze won't corrode in salt water)
a brownish-colored metal with red or yellow hues that is made of copper and (usually) tin

Bronze metals in the Olympics and many other contests are awarded for third place.

With the discovery of bronze (about 3,000 BC), people could make tools and weapons that were harder and more durable than those made of copper and stone that preceded bronze.
(2) (bronze as in: a bronze tan)
a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown color like that of one of the metals with the same name -- often used to refer to a suntan or a dark glowing complexion
(3) (bronze as in: her bronze is on display)
something made of the brownish metal with the same name -- such as a sculpture (statue) or a third place medal

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