Bible Quote by Victor Hugo

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

— Joseph Joubert

There were poets before Homer.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

“It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as…

— Nic Fields

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

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

— Aldous Huxley

“...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton .”

— Joseph Devlin

“...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

“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of…

— Will Durant

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

— John Dryden

“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

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

— Julian Jaynes