Agamemnon Quote by James Lee Burke

In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last…

— Frederick Lenz

“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

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

The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their…

— T. S. Eliot

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

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us…

— Umberto Eco

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

— Horace

Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of…

— Boyle Roche

“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

When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And…

— James Joyce

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

— Aeschylus

“There was precious little nobility in the features of the High King's fleshy face. Like his body, his face was broad and heavy, with…

— Ben Bova