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. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet…

— Roman Payne

“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

“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

Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their…

— Alice Oswald

“Well, Alexander thought, any minute now, one of the girls he had carelessly discarded was going to come by the barracks with a gun…

— Paullina Simons

“Where he (Alexander) came the inhabitants either accepted him with roses and wine, or fought and were beaten. He preferred the latter.”

— William Bolitho

“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

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

— Jasmine Angell

“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

“Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander’s adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no longer free.”

— William Bolitho