If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back… — 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
No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama… — David Frawley Copy Share Image
It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning… — Homer Copy Share Image
The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad. — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
“Love is a poison,' her father responded. 'One you grow accustomed to, but does not kill you.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Do all in Troy despise me?' 'That is a strong word, my sweet.' The young Queen of Sparta pulled away from her… — Janell Rhiannon 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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He must lay siege against Briseis' walls and conquer her. Love would be his sword and he would break all her chains.” — Janell Rhiannon 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
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
And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Helen looked up at Paris, her face wet with tears and blotchy with grief, and nodded her consent. 'Together we are chained… — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?' — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
