Achilles Quote by Cedric H Whitman

“What is it about the Greek character that has allowed this complex culture to thrive for millennia? The Greek Isles are home to an…

— Laura Brooks

The Greek people have gone through some very difficult times and there's still a hard road ahead, but despite those hardships, Greece has continued…

— Barack Obama

The Wrath of Achilles had probably been an epic subject for generations when Homer found it, and the germ of its meaning, the conflict…

— Cedric H Whitman

The fact that Achilles is the one to take the initiative (in the Chryse affair) is in itself significant: he feels responsiblity and concern…

— Cedric H Whitman

Odysseus sees reality as the situation or problem before him; Achilles sees it as something in himself, and the problem is to identify himself…

— Cedric H Whitman

Achilles' absolute, like every heroic absolute, finds its telos or fulfillment, not in dislocating the world as it is, but in self-destruction.

— Cedric H Whitman

Personal integrity in Achilles achieves the form and authority of immanent divinity, with its inviolable, lonely singleness, half repellent because of its almost inhuman…

— Cedric H Whitman

And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as…

— Homer

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of…

— Dwight Longenecker

To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to…

— Sophie Swetchine

There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the same anecdotes…

— Karen Elson

“Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.”

— Madeline Miller