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
friendship race soul
But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.
sea tomorrow morrow
To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.
soul sorrow sad-soul
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
lying deceit never-lie
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
inspirational life men
Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
wise color sensual
She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.
dream two ivory
Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.
sandwiches bedroom share
Be generous in the bedroom. Share your sandwich.
men wretched
We men are wretched things.
men weapons tongue
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.
spring men wind
Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.
men brave coward
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
rage-from-the-iliad wealth life-is
My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius
heart men mind
I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.