Calculus Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad'…

— Denis O'Hare

The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere.

— Cedric H Whitman

“Everybody knows the thing about an infinite number of monkeys," Fenig said. "An infinite number of monkeys is put to work at an infinite…

— Don DeLillo

It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.

— Chang-Rae Lee

“Maybe it’s true that an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare.…

— James Browning

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

— Raymond Queneau

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on…

— Henry David Thoreau

Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade

— Propertius

“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of…

— Will Durant

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

— Aldous Huxley

'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever…

— Denis O'Hare

Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

— Propertius