Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Would he not say with Homer,. Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as…

— Plato

“What mostly happens in the Iliad is that Achilles has a hissy fit because Agamemnon has stolen a slave girl of his, sulks in…

— Caroline Taggart

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

“This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of the difference real leadership could have made…

— Caroline Alexander

“So it's a strife here, in a way, between position—between the CEO and the top salesman; between the principal and the best teacher; between…

— Timothy B. Shutt

“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During…

— Roman Payne

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find…

— Marilynne Robinson

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

“Homer never wondered whether, after their many hand-to-hand struggles, Achilles or Ajax still had all their teeth.”

— Milan Kundera

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

— Propertius

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Oscar Wilde