“If you truly hope to win her over, be as honest with yourself as with her.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
“Precious are the last moments when you do not know they are the last.” — Janell Rhiannon 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
The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death. — Homer Copy Share Image
“You must speak to her heart, then. But first, you must open yours, then hers will follow.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
“No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. — Harold Bloom 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
“Listen!" "Ludwig was mad, bro But he was also bad, bro, Was his own 'Iliad,' bro..." "Jonah!" Amy breathed.” — Jude Watson Copy Share Image
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
A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a… — Homer Copy Share Image
What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I read about Achilles… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“What mostly happens in the Iliad is that Achilles has a hissy fit because Agamemnon has stolen a slave girl of his,… — Caroline Taggart Copy Share Image
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to… — Franz Wright 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
A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of… — Stephen Marche 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
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
“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
“...we have a right to narrow down our universe ever further and further; until like the world of the Iliad and the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“Hektor, argue me no agreements. I cannot forgive you. As there are no trustworthy oaths between men and lions, nor wolves and… — Homer 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“...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
“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
