Addition Quote by Alice Oswald

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

— Raymond Queneau

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

— Aldous Huxley

It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.

— Chang-Rae Lee

For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad'…

— Denis O'Hare

“What mostly happens in the Iliad is that Achilles has a hissy fit because Agamemnon has stolen a slave girl of his, sulks in…

— Caroline Taggart

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Everywhere in Homer's saga of the rage of Achilles and the battles before Troy we are made conscious at one and the same time…

— Bernard Knox

“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During…

— Roman Payne

“No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is by virtue…

— Simone Weil

“The 21st century has certainly seen the rape of women in wartime, but it has long been treated as an atrocious war crime, which…

— Steven Pinker

The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere.

— Cedric H Whitman

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

— Raymond Queneau