It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are… — Dan Ariely 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
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and… — Brendan Myers 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
“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
“Nestor is the spokesman for the status quo, for the tradition-hallowed belief that institutional power equates with unquestioned authority.” — Caroline Alexander 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
“so evenly was strained their war and battle, till the moment when Zeus gave the greater renown to Hector, son of Priam,… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Priam and Achilles meet in the very twilight of their lives. Their extinction is certain and there will be no reward for… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.” — Caroline Alexander 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
“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
I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better. — Meg White Copy Share Image
“Thetis knew this woman had conquered the unconquerable, without knowing she had done so.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
“And what if one of the gods does wreck me out on the wine-dark sea? I have a heart that is inured… — Homer 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
“Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me death." Caesar, in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but… — Roman Payne 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
If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry… — Alice Oswald 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
“She must be strong enough to hold the memory of her husband, to sing his song in her heart until she joined… — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
