Quotes About Homer

Yet his reading of birds could not keep off dark destruction

Alles wird man ja satt, des schlafes sogar, und der liebe, Auch des süßen gesangs, und bewunderten reigentanzes: Welche doch mehr anreizen die sehnsuchtsvolle begierde, Als der krieg; doch die Troer sind niemals satt des gefechts! (Ilias; 13. Gesang V. 636-640)

Äneias, geehrt wie ein gott im volke der Troer (Ilias; Elfter Gesang V. 58)

And here, take my veil and put it round your chest; it is enchanted, and you can come to no harm so long as you wear it. (Calypso)

Homer— "Omeros — has been called a derivative from ofiov apeiv, to describe the man who first arranged separate songs together into one great whole. But neither Homer's Iliad nor God's world could be made by a fortuitous concurrence of atoms.

The cognate word xenos can mean both "stranger" and "friend"; it is the root from which we get the English word "xenophobia," the fear of strangers or foreigners, as well as the sadly less common "xenophilia," the love of strangers or of unknown objects.

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

Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional epic, and at the very moment of its hero's greatest military triumph, Homer diverts his focus from Achilles to the epic's two most important casualties, Patroklos and Hektor: it is to the consequences of their deaths, especially to the victor, that all action of the Iliad has been inexorably leading.

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 the Greek fleet, the first hostilities of the war, the Trojan Horse, and the sacking and burning of Troy. Instead, the 15,693 lines of Homer's Iliad describe the occurrences of a roughly two-week period in the tenth and final year of what had become a stalemated siege of Troy.

Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.

This, for Homer, is the tragedy of being human: to desire freedom, and be tortured by a sense of autonomy, and yet be imprisoned by forces beyond our control.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his…. It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

decimoctavo libro de la Ilíada de Homero, se indica que Hefesto, el dios griego, tiene como ayudante a «un par de sirvientas… hechas de oro exactamente como muchachas vivientes; tienen juicio en sus cabezas, pueden hablar y utilizan sus músculos, pueden girarse y moverse de izquierda a derecha así como hacer su trabajo…». Sin duda alguna, se trata de robots.

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away

There are absolute masterpieces that move us intensely: Mozart's Requiem, Homer's Odyssey, the Sistine Chapel, King Lear. To fully appreciate their brilliance may require a long apprenticeship, but the reward is sheer beauty--and not only this, but the opening of our eyes to a new perspective upon the world. Einstein's jewel, the general theory of relativity, is a masterpiece of this order.

A homer a day will boost my pay.

Unstrung: that is the word that comes back to him from Homer. The spear shatters the breastbone, blood spurts, the limbs are unstrung, the body topples like a wooden puppet. Well, his limbs have been unstrung and now his spirit is unstrung too. His spirit is ready to topple.

Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:

Ah, no wonder the men of Troy and Argives under arms have suffered years of agony all for her, for such a woman. Beauty, terrible beauty! —The Iliad, Homer, TRANSLATED BY ROBERT FAGLES

All men begin their learning with Homer.

Classics-based sci-fi is nothing new. To name the most recent of many examples, the novelist Dan Simmons published "Ilium" and "Olympos," science-fictional takes on Homer. When

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

preliterate authors, such as Homer, who cannot be grammatically constrained,