Homer900–800 BCThe quotations of
Homer
Reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
900–800 BC
21 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Patriotism and God.
Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.Iliad, Book IX, 312–313 (tr. Alexander Pope)- Iliad, Book XV, 496–497 (tr. Lord Derby)
Bird-signs!
Fight for your country—that is the best, the only omen!Iliad, Book XII, 243 (tr. Robert Fagles)Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.
The Iliad (750 BC), Iliad, Book X, 173–174 (tr. Samuel Butler)In contextThere can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.
The Iliad (750 BC), Iliad, Book XXII, 262–263 (tr. Samuel Butler)In context- Iliad, Book XVII, 446–447 (tr. Richmond Lattimore)
- Iliad, IX. 443 (tr. Andrew Lang); Phoenix recalling Peleus’s charge to Achilles
Now always be the best, my boy, the bravest,
and hold your head up high above the others.Iliad, VI. 208 (tr. Robert Fagles); Glaucus recalling his father’s charge- The Iliad (750 BC), Iliad, V. 440–442 (tr. Samuel Butler); Apollo to DiomedesIn context
- Iliad, XXIV. 505–506 (tr. Robert Fagles); Priam to Achilles
- Iliad, XIV. 216–217 (tr. Robert Fagles); Aphrodite’s embroidered band
- Iliad, IX. 320 (tr. Lord Derby); Achilles to the embassy
- Iliad, XIV. 233 (tr. Lord Derby); Hera addressing Sleep
- Iliad, XVII. 32 (tr. Richmond Lattimore); Menelaus to Euphorbus
- The Odyssey (8th century BC), Book IIn context
