ODYSSEUS I cannot recommend a rigid spirit.

'The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire book is…

— Lawrence Osborne

“Odysseus...sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope.”

— Richard Adams

SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any…

— Ambrose Bierce

“What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory… We are men only,…

— Madeline Miller

“Odysseus is the statesman of the Iliad, the man in the middle, keeping what balance he can among the parties. He shows himself at…

— Eva Brann

As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind…

— Salman Rushdie

“What could you possibly write at Gates of Hades?” Cadmus asked. “Keep your spirits up.” Lycon sheathed the dagger he’d used to chisel the…

— Sulari Gentill

It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea…

— Barry S. Strauss

But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time…

— Anonymous

“But when Odysseus rose, that man of many devices, fixing his down-cast eyes on the ground he stood: nor his scepter swayed, either this…

— Homer

Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of…

— Arthur C. Clarke

To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“You are like Odysseus, who could go out onto the great sea, lose all his goods and his friends, come to the boundaries of…

— Gillian Bradshaw

Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired…

— Madeline Miller

“But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and…

— Homer