Credit Quote by Roger Ebert

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

— Aldous Huxley

“Everywhere in Homer's saga of the rage of Achilles and the battles before Troy we are made conscious at one and the same time…

— Bernard Knox

The Wrath of Achilles had probably been an epic subject for generations when Homer found it, and the germ of its meaning, the conflict…

— Cedric H Whitman

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

— Oscar Wilde

“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

“The oldest written poem was by the Greek, Homer. His poem, The Iliad, tells the story of the siege of Troy, a story of…

— Terry Deary

“Homer's epic does not tell of such seemingly essential events as the abduction of Helen, for example, nor of the mustering and sailing of…

— Caroline Alexander

Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

— Ovid

“Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional…

— Caroline Alexander

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

— Raymond Queneau

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not…

— Jonathan Swift

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson