178 Quote by Mortimer J. Adler

“Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

— Aldous Huxley

I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see…

— Anne Carson

It is perhaps not surprising, amid the general leveling of individual aspirations in the growing megalopolis that it was the "Odyssey", not the "Iliad"…

— Cedric H Whitman

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed…

— Robert Fitzgerald

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

— Victor Hugo

“Greek culture owed tremendous debt to the Aegean ... This civilization had grown old, and passed away centuries before the period of Greek learning…

— James John Courtenay

“The picture-writing of the Greeks in the pre-Homeric age was derived from a Semitic source, circa second millennium B.C., the type of alphabetic script…

— James John Courtenay

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues…

— Henry Crew

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure…

— Henry David Thoreau