Citing Quotes from The Odyssey



Citing Quotes from The Odyssey

• Show the reader where the poem's line break falls by using a slash mark (with a space on each side). Also, when you are citing a range of pages involving 3 digit (or greater) numbers that have the first number(s) in common, only include the last 2 numbers of the second number. Example: (9.204-05) would be the citation for a quote that begins in book 9 at line 204 and ends at line 205. Example:

For example, after Polyphemus asks Odysseus who they are and where they are from, Odysseus replies, “We are from Troy, Achaeans, blown off course / by shifting gales on the Great South Sea” (9.204-05).

• In citing The Odyssey, cite by division (book) and line, with periods (but no spaces) separating the numbers. For example, (9.649) refers to Book 9, line 649. Note: if you are citing quotes from the Prentice Hall Timeless Voices Timeless Themes anthology (the textbook), you will notice that there aren’t any book numbers, but you can figure out which book it is based on what occurs in the plot.

• Block quotes: Verse quotations of more than three lines should begin on a new line. Indent each line one inch from the left margin and continue to double space the lines, adding no quotation marks that do not appear in the original. Place the citation after the last line of the quotation (after the line’s end punctuation mark, i.e. period). Reproduce the arrangement of the original lines (quote the poem line by line as it appears on the original page) without slash marks; if a line is too long to fit within the right margin, continue it on the next line but indent the continuation an additional quarter inch. Example:

Furthermore, Odysseus tells the Phaecians about how Polyphemus became intoxicated after drinking Odysseus’ wine:

Even as he spoke, he reeled and tumbled backward,

his great head lolling from side to side; and sleep

took him like any creature. Drunk, hiccupping,

he dribbled streams of liquor and bits of men. (9.319-322)

• If you are citing quotes from both the Prentice Hall Timeless Voices Timeless Themes anthology (the textbook) and the Holt, Rinehart, and Winston Elements of Literature anthology (the packet book), you need to distinguish between them by using a short form of the title before the numbers, with a space between them, such as (Timeless 1.5) or (Elements 9.649). If you are only citing quotes from one of them, you do not include the title (only include the book and line numbers).

• To cite both sources in the parentheses, cite each source as instructed above, but use a semicolon (with a space after it) to separate them. Example: (Timeless 1.5; Elements 9.649)

• Remember, if you must remove a word or words from part of a quotation, use an ellipsis (…); this is 3 periods with a space before each and a space after the last. What remains must be grammatically complete. However, do not begin or end quotes with ellipses, except if you have cut words from the end of the final sentence quoted (then use an ellipsis before the final quotation mark and parenthetical reference). If you delete a full sentence or more in the middle of a quoted passage, use a period before the 3 ellipses dots.

• When omitting one or more full lines of poetry (from the middle), space several periods to about the length of a complete line in the poem. Example: 

Homer describes Hermes’ flight over Calypso’s island in evocative detail:

So wand in hand he paced the air,

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

and veered to skim the swell. A gull patrolling

between the wave crests of the desolate sea

will dip to catch a fish, and douse his wings[.] (5.249, 251-53)

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