Quotes About Iliad

Rage is properly the title of Homer's poem, and his audience may have known it by that name, not Iliad .

I count eight separate deaths to which soldiers in the Iliad responded with tears, Several of these are quoted in the course of this chapter and need not to be repeated. The general answer to the question of who is wept is: everyone . American military culture in Vietnam regarded tears as dangerous but above all as demeaning, the sigh of a weakling, a loser. To weep was to lose one's dignity among American soldiers in Vietnam.

In this night too, in this night of his mortal eyes into which he was now descending, love and danger were again waiting... a murmur of glory and hexameters, of men defending a temple the gods will not save, and of black vessels searching the sea for a beloved isle; the murmor of the Odyssey s and Iliad s it was his destiny to sing and leave echoing concavely in the memory of man. These things we know, but not those he felt descending into the last shade of all.

Nyx, born of Chaos in Greek mythology, was the goddess of "all-subduing" night who, in the Iliad, makes even Zeus tremble.

There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature.

In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild thinking in Hamlet and the Iliad, in all the scriptures and mythologies, not learned in the schools, that delights us.

Listen! Ludwig was mad, bro But he was also bad, bro, Was his own 'Iliad,' bro... Jonah! Amy breathed.

I looked at Camilla, her face bright in the sun, and thought of that line from the Iliad that I love so much, about Pallas Athene and the terrible eyes shining. And if beauty is terror, said Julian, then what is desire? We think we have many desires but in fact we only have one. What is it? To live said Camilla To live forever said Bunny, chin cupped in palm The teakettle began to whistle.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the Iliad. Good and evil do not exist.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

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

One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.

The 'Iliad' covered only two months of the great ten-year war with Troy. At least six other epic poems preceded or continued the events in the 'Iliad', but they survive only as fragments.

A college president I know keeps three books on his night table: the Bible, the Iliad, and Louis Auchincloss' 1964 novel The Rector of Justin. When I once asked him, "Why the novel?," he responded, "Because it raises questions I cannot answer or ignore, the sort of questions that possess a wisdom apart from answers.

That intersection between dream and reality is what I am attempting to capture here, akin though it is to trying to pinpoint the origin of the Iliad, or what would later become the Roman Empire, or Michelangelo's Moses, or the theory of gravitation. Nonetheless,

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

No, ogni uomo nobile e saggio ama la sua donna e ne ha cura come io con tutto il cuore amavo la mia, e non importava se era una schiava di guerra. (Achille, da Omero, Iliade)

He translates one book of the Iliad, two of the Odyssey, plus an admirable slice of Plato's Republic. Five lines on an average day, ten on a good one, scribbled onto yellow legal pads in his crimped pencil-writing and stuffed into boxes beneath the dining table. Sometimes he believes his translations are adequate. Usually he decides they're terrible. He shows them to no one.

I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.

it has been estimated that the Iliad would have taken three full days to perform before an audience

is called Wilusa by the Hittites and Wilios, later Ilios or Ilion, by the Greeks

Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer's 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.