“Understand, I did not conquer my wife. I won her over. There is a difference.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“I would not trade one day of our life for all the gold in the citadel.” — 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
“With Cosette’s garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would… — Victor Hugo 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
“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
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with… — Matthew Arnold 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
There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die. — Anonymous 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 Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles'… — Homer Copy Share Image
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
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
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into… — Simone Weil 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
In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
“Just because a book is a classic doesn't mean it has anything to do with real life. Homer's ILIAD is taught at… — David Denby 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
“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
“Everywhere in Homer's saga of the rage of Achilles and the battles before Troy we are made conscious at one and the… — Bernard Knox 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
“Odysseus is the statesman of the Iliad, the man in the middle, keeping what balance he can among the parties. He shows… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“...while epic fantasy is based on the fairy tale of the just war, that’s not one you’ll find in Grimm or Disney,… — Catherynne M. Valente 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
“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
“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
“The 21st century has certainly seen the rape of women in wartime, but it has long been treated as an atrocious war… — Steven Pinker 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
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation. Raymond Queneau After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
