“For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he… — Homer Copy Share Image
“But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his… — Homer Copy Share Image
“In this way, the Odyssey’s hero embodies one of its central themes, which is that the capacity to defer satisfaction and endure… — Homer Copy Share Image
“In The Odyssey, we find instead the story of a man whose grand adventure is simply to go back to his own… — Homer Copy Share Image
“down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates… — Homer Copy Share Image
“for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Then we entered the Straits in great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other dread… — Homer Copy Share Image
“We did not get on much further, for in another moment we were caught by a terrific squall from the West that… — Homer Copy Share Image
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. — Homer Copy Share
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years… — Homer Copy Share
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. — Homer Copy Share
“And Zeus said: “Hera, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus — for the present let us devote ourselves… — Homer Copy Share
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over… — Homer Copy Share
“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for… — Homer Copy Share
“With that the dream departed, leaving him there, his heart racing with hopes that would not come to pass. He thought he would take… — Homer Copy Share
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. — Homer Copy Share
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies. — Homer Copy Share
