Homer Quotes

Then looking at him darkly resourceful Odysseus spoke to him: “What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?” - View Quote Details on Then looking at him darkly resourceful Odysseus spoke to him:…
So they spoke, and both springing down from behind their horses gripped each other’s hands and exchanged the promise of friendship; but Zeus the son of Kronos stole away the wits of Glaukos who exchanged with Diomedes the son of Tydeus armour of gold for bronze, for nine oxen’s worth the worth of a hundred. - View Quote Details on So they spoke, and both springing down from behind their…
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead,
Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. - View Quote Details on Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead,
Who, living, had no…
These things surely lie on the knees of the gods. - View Quote Details on These things surely lie on the knees of the gods.
I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through; I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children. - View Quote Details on I have gone through what no other mortal on earth…
The will of Zeus was accomplished. - View Quote Details on The will of Zeus was accomplished.
As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies. - View Quote Details on As is the generation of leaves, so is that of…
But how did you come to have this skill about Homer only, and not about Hesiod or the other poets? Does not Homer speak of the same themes which all other poets handle? Is not war his great argument? and does he not speak of human society and of intercourse of men, good and bad, skilled and unskilled, and of the gods conversing with one another and with mankind, and about what happens in heaven and in the world below, and the generations of gods and heroes? Are not these the themes of which Homer sings? - View Quote Details on But how did you come to have this skill about…
In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting sun, of which the grandeur remains without the intensity. - View Quote Details on In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting…
Man, supposing you and I, escaping this battle, would be able to live on forever, ageless, immortal, so neither would I myself go on fighting in the foremost, nor would I urge you into the fighting where men win glory. But now, seeing that the spirits of death stand close about us in their thousands, no man can turn aside or escape them, let us go on and win glory for ourselves, or yield it to others. - View Quote Details on Man, supposing you and I, escaping this battle, would be…
Victory passes back and forth between men. - View Quote Details on Victory passes back and forth between men.
And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once. - View Quote Details on And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once.
As learned commentators view
In Homer more than Homer knew. - View Quote Details on As learned commentators view
In Homer more than Homer knew.
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right. - View Quote Details on Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served…
Homer, the sovereign poet. - View Quote Details on Homer, the sovereign poet.