Agamemnon Quote by Horace

“We've never heard About a marvel quite so great, For all the heroes who have lived In history can't measure up In bravery against…

— Christine de Pizan

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet…

— Horace

“* Who do you think of when you hear the word “successful”? “The first people who come to mind are the real heroes of…

— Timothy Ferriss

In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

— Horace

“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young woman, someone’s…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“But the Danaan princes and Agamemnon’s battalions, soon as they saw the man and his arms flashing amid the glom, trembled with mighty fear;…

— Virgil

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

— Aeschylus

The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but…

— Aleister Crowley

Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of…

— Homer

“AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate! CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.”

— Euripides

I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon,

— Heinrich Schliemann