The gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build … - Homer

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The gods don't hand out all their gifts at once,
not build and brains and flowing speech to all.

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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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Κοίτου τε μνήσαντο καὶ ὕπνου δῶρον ἕλοντο.

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...

Sing, goddess, of Achilles' ruinous anger
Which brought ten thousand pains to the Achaeans,
And cast the souls of many stalwart heroes
To Hades, and their bodies to the dogs
And birds of prey.

The gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. - Homer

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