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“The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words…

— Kate DiCamillo

“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of…

— Will Durant

“So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly Contained his anguish. […] Aeneas, more than…

— Virgil

“The problem with heroes and villains is that it’s not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.”

— Jessica Meats

“Will I die without ever reading Ulysses to the end?”

— David Mitchell

“But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulysses" on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic,…

— John Munro Woolsey

“In my experience heroes are no more good than you or I. And though occasionally noble, they are just as often cunning, resourceful, and…

— Jonathan Auxier

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not…

— Jonathan Swift

“The human race exaggerates everything: its heroes, its enemies, its importance.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Maybe we're not the most faithful heroes, but maybe at least we can describe them.”

— HAZEM ABDELMOWLA

“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed, no man…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.”

— Jostein Gaarder