Homer
Homer
Homeris 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...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
sea land voice
On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.
games history conqueror
Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?
wine thoughtful men
Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.
drinking grief wine
She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills
discovery done deeds
By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
spring wind tree
The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.
achilles absence absent-mindedness
Achilles absent was Achilles still!
lying garden blue
Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.
blessed men earth
Whoever among men who walk the Earth has seen these Mysteries is blessed, but whoever in uninitiated and has not received his share of the rite, he will not have the same lot as the others, once he is dead and dwells in the mould where the sun goes down.
men race flare-up
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
strong men two
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
men sky light
The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.
wind sea skills
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.
kings soil tied
I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.