Homer Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded…

— Joseph Jacobs

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

— Giacomo Leopardi

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer…

— James A. McDougall

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved…

— Anne Carson

“The oldest written poem was by the Greek, Homer. His poem, The Iliad, tells the story of the siege of Troy, a story of…

— Terry Deary

For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common…

— Aristotle

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

— Anne Carson

“Why does Homer give us descriptions so much more vivid than all the poets. Because he sees so much more around him. We speak…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Aldous Huxley

There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years…

— Tariq Ali

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

— Aristotle

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare… The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

— Victor Hugo