Arms Quote by James Joyce

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

— Soren Kierkegaard

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes…

— Robert Redford

At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly…

— Camille Paglia

“During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus…

— Milan Kundera

Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the…

— Mary Renault

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

— Raymond Queneau

“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

“Odysseus is the statesman of the Iliad, the man in the middle, keeping what balance he can among the parties. He shows himself at…

— Eva Brann

“Of this trinity of classic heroes - Ulysses, Aeneas, and Achilles - Ulysses is the least obnoxious.”

— Anonymous

There is a wonderful passage in the Odyssey where Odysseus meets the ghost of Achilles in Hades. They are profoundly courteous to each other.…

— Cedric H Whitman

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question…

— Oliver Stone

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

— John Dryden