Iliad Quote by Raymond Queneau

'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was…

— Karl Marlantes

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

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

— Heinrich Heine

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a…

— George Saintsbury

Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection…

— Brad Pitt

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

— Raymond Queneau

I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin.…

— Caroline Lawrence

What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever created The…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

— Blaise Pascal

The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret…

— Robert Dessaix

'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