Books Quote by Patrick O'Brian

“While some of the earliest copies of non-biblical writings date to thousands of years later than their originals (Homer’s Odyssey is unusually good; only…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation…

— Pericles

“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

Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

“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

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

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For…

— Francis Bacon

I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I…

— Thomas Jefferson

“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed, no man…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

— B. W. Powe

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

— Howard Nemerov