About Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

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

— Cedric H Whitman

'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever…

— Denis O'Hare

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

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a…

— George Saintsbury

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to…

— Andre Dubus

Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection…

— Brad Pitt

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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Raymond Queneau

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual…

— Raymond Queneau

Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their…

— Alice Oswald

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 I don't…

— Alice Oswald