All men need the gods... - Homer

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All men need the gods...

Homer

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About Homer

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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Originators like Homer:

Aeschylus Euripides Walter Scott William Shakespeare John Dryden

Additional quotes by Homer

. . . But if he is truly

Odysseus, home at last, make no mistake:

we two will know each other, even better — we two have secret signs,

known to us both but hidden from the world.

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

It has been an easy, and a popular expedient of late years, to deny the personal or real existence of men and things whose life and condition were too much for our belief.