That is the god's work, spinning threads of death through t… - Homer

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That is the god's work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come...

Homer

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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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But Zeus does not bring to accomplishment all thoughts in men's minds.

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy.
Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds,
many pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea,
fighting to save his life and bring his comrades home.

The Odyssey of Homer, trans. Philip Stanhope Worsley and John Conington (1865)

That is the god's work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come... - Homer

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