"Her gray eyes clear, the goddess Athena answered, "Down from the skies I come to check your rage if only you will yield - Homer

"Her gray eyes clear, the goddess Athena answered, "Down from the skies I come to check your rage if only you will yield

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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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Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.
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