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
dog home men
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.
dog parent wish
Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw
men blood drink
I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men
inspirational teenager feelings
youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.
daughter eye men
All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.
sleep profound counterfeit
Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death
inspirational teenager men
A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time
aries fit knows
Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.
men blessing two
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
reality literature hunger
Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
names vanity merit
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
friendship two-friends soul
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
inspirational teenager suffering
If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.
inspirational teenager journey
The journey is the thing.