Cities Quote by Thomas Heywood

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather.…

— Robert Fitzgerald

“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

“Nobody remembers them, you know ? Nobody. Nobody remebers why they died, why they didnt have a wife and children and a sun lit…

— Javier Cercas

I am pleased to think of Channing as an inhabitant of the gray town. Seven cities contended for Homer dead. Tell him to remain…

— Anonymous

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

— B. W. Powe

“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 city lay cool and dim beneath a vaulting sky of high-scudding gray clouds. A gray shroud that covered the corpses of buildings, stiff…

— Harlan Ellison

Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of…

— Xenophanes

“With him died a story That will not be retold: How, forsaking glory, Achilles grows old While Hector dusts his trophies Behind high walls-…

— R.S. Gwynn

Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

— William Butler Yeats

With his sunglasses gone and his scarf hanging down, there was no denying that he had no flesh, he had no skin, he had…

— Derek Landy

“Look north. Achilles on the rampart by the ditch: He lifts his face to 90; draws his breath; And from the bottom of his…

— Christopher Logue