Homer Quotes

reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος) is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.

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Native Name: Ὅμηρος

Alternative Names: Homerus • Homeros • Mæonides

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Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one — so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim — the greater man.

Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the house of somebody else with my lamentation and wailing. It is not good to go on mourning forever.

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end
So voluble a weapon is the tongue;
Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail
For every man has equal strength to rail.

A last request — grant it, please.
Never bury my bones apart from yours, Achilles,
let them lie together . . .
just as we grew up together in your house

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

You've injured me, Farshooter, most deadly of the gods;
And I'd punish you, if I had the power.

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself — more birds than women flocking round his body!

I will stay with it and endure through suffering hardship and once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces, then I will swim.

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions...

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own transgressions which bring them suffering that was not their destiny.

Homer Quotes

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