O Thestorides, of the many things hidden from the knowledge… - Homer

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O Thestorides, of the many things hidden from the knowledge of man, nothing is more unintelligible than the human heart.” 8

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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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And uncontrollable laughter broke from the happy gods
as they watched the god of fire breathing hard
and bustling through the halls.

I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, you too shall live but for a little season; death and the day of your doom are close upon you, and they will lay you low by the hand of Achilles son of Aiakos.

Both gods knotted the rope of strife and leveling war,
strangling both sides at once by stretching the mighty cable,
never broken, never slipped, that snapped the knees of thousands.

O Thestorides, of the many things hidden from the knowledge of man, nothing is more unintelligible than the human heart.” 8 - Homer

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