Alexander-the-great Quote by Roman Payne

“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

“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I’ve never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey'…

— Roman Payne

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

— Oscar Wilde

“His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad of the…

— Jules Verne

“With Cosette’s garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would call him…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Aldous Huxley

“Alexander shifted in my arms. God, he was so small, and from the giddy looks on my father's and Ashley's faces, they already worshiped…

— Katie McGarry

“I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes--epic on epic, Iliad on Iliad, and you always brothers…

— G. K. Chesterton

“Alexander was no longer so much the master of his lust, having been fawned upon by Fortune, whom mortal men too little distrust.”

— Andrew Chugg

“They passed the Gates of Thermopylae the following day and Alexander stopped to visit the tombs of the Spartan soldiers who had fallen one…

— Valerio Massimo Manfredi

“The great impact of Hellenistic culture was, however, no in natural science, but in the more Plato-inspired imaginative literature. The modern novel has its…

— Norman F. Cantor

“Ilauria on Phaedrus: His love was like the sun and the moon all wrapped in one.”

— Jasmine Angell