Quotes Tagged With :homer

Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you....

Warriors with developed senses of honour and hair-trigger tempers sensitive to the slightest insult make....

Why don't those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks?

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting....

School in itself is a microcosm of society. These kids bring a lot of baggage with them, and as teachers....

Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;....

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also....

This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of....

Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.

Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero.....