Quotes About Homer

Homer's language is markedly rhythmical, but it is not difficult or ostentatious. The Odyssey relies on coordinated, not subordinated syntax (" and then this, and then this, and then this," rather than "although this, because of that, when this, which was this, on account of that").

What are they here —violent, savage, lawless? or friendly to strangers, god-fearing men?

güneÅŸin, y?ld?zl? göÄŸün alt?nda, yeryüzünde nice kentler var, bunlar içinde ben kutsal Ä°lyon'u severim Priamos'u Priamos'un iyi karg? atan halk?n?

the dead, to the drifting, listless spirits of their ghosts

Ah, wretched man! unmindful of thy end! A moment's glory; and what fates attend!

Do not in this way, skilled though you be, godlike Achilles, try to trick me

the goddess Calypso, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him.

scattering medicines that still pain, healed him, since he was not made to be one of the mortals.

So the other gods as well as chariot-fighting men slept through the night;

Por espacio de nueve días acarrearon abundante leña; y, cuando por décima vez apuntó la aurora, que trae la luz a los mortales, sacaron llorando el cadáver del audaz Héctor, lo pusieron en lo alto de la pira y le prendieron fuego.

2.?ILIÁDOS B So the other gods as well as chariot-fighting men slept through the night; but

He called at once to his companion Patroclus, shouting for him from the ship. Hearing the call in his hut, Patroclus equal of Ares came out; and that was the beginning of his end.

Never once have you taken courage in your heart to arm with your people for battle, or go into ambuscade with the best

and poured libations out to the everlasting gods who never die — to Athena first of all, the daughter of Zeus with flashing sea-grey eyes — and the ship went plunging all night long and through the dawn (R. Fagles translation)

That was all gods' work, weaving ruin there So it should make a song for men to come!

With that, the owl-eyed goddess flew away like a bird, up through the smoke.

To you, sedition, violence and fighting are the breath of life. What if you are a great soldier - who made you so but God?

Zeus the Thunderer in his own person and with all solemnity made me certain promises. These you tell me to forget; and instead you would have me base my actions on the flight of birds, winged creatures who do not interest me at all - in fact I do not care whether they fly to the right towards the morning sun or to the left into the western gloom.

Tell me now, you Muses who have your homes on Olympos. 485  For you, who are goddesses, are there, and you know all things, and we have heard only the rumor of it and know nothing. Who then of those were the chief men and the lords of the Danaäns? I

The Iliad, said Aristotle, is pathetic and simple; the Odyssey is ethical and mixed.

It were too much toil for me, as if I were a god, to tell all this, for all about the stone wall the inhuman strength of the fire was rising

and beseeched all the Achaeans

the English of the nineteenth or early twentieth century is no closer to Homeric Greek than the language of today. The use of a noncolloquial or archaizing linguistic register can blind readers to the real, inevitable, and vast gap between the Greek original and any modern translation. My use of contemporary language—rather than the English of a generation or two ago—is meant to remind readers that this text can engage us in a direct way, and also that it is genuinely ancient.

they arise from over-saturation with the Iliad.