Character Quote by Robert Fitzgerald

“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 words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

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 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

“Why does Homer give us descriptions so much more vivid than all the poets. Because he sees so much more around him. We speak…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

“...The first dictionaries were glossaries of Homeric words, intended to help Romans read the Iliad and Odyssey as well as other Greek literature employing…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“Yet nothing can be more certain than this: what makes a poet a poet is the fact that he sees himself surrounded by figures…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

— Edward Said

“he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke—the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in…

— Paulo Coelho