Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade — Propertius Copy Share Image
“Thetis knew this woman had conquered the unconquerable, without knowing she had done so.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!" Homer Simpson — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere. — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I want to be a homer. I'm getting paid for something that I love to do. I would do it for nothing. — Ron Santo Copy Share Image
I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do. — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got,… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
“...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad,… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried… — Homer Copy Share Image
“...as we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we are left with only Homer… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Homer's epic does not tell of such seemingly essential events as the abduction of Helen, for example, nor of the mustering and… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer.… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I've seen few things more depressing than the end-of-season Giants-Padres series in 2001 in which Barry Bonds hit his 68th homer of… — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields,… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little.… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the… — Alfonso Soriano Copy Share Image
“Every writer on the Orient (and this is true even of Homer) assumes some Oriental precedent, some previous knowledge of the Orient,… — Edward W. Said 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
“we're looking for a planeet on the strength of a song. it's crazy I know, but its the only chance we have… — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
“It is an interesting, though idle, speculation, what would be the effect on us if all our reformers, revolutionaries, planners, politicians, and… — H.D.F. Kitto Copy Share Image
“Warriors with developed senses of honour and hair-trigger tempers sensitive to the slightest insult make dangerous enemies but they also make uncertain… — C. D. C. Reeve Copy Share Image
“O Divine Poesy, goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song of the various-minded man who, after he had plundered the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
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