For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“If you truly hope to win her over, be as honest with yourself as with her.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
I heard about Bhagavad Gita very early in my childhood, from the age of five onwards. It was one of the earliest… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Precious are the last moments when you do not know they are the last.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither… — Homer 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
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Hektor was the wall around her world that kept life's perils at bay.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“Briseis blinked, shaking her head in disbelief. 'You have taken everything from me. My husband. My brothers. My father. You have given… — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. — Homer Copy Share Image
