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
aliens
Immortals are never alien to one another.
mother strong powerful
Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.
tales grain repeats
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
lying mouths fiction
I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!
grief long joy
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
inspirational teenager rocks
A small rock holds back a great wave.
warrior huge dies
Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.
men thinking earth
Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
true-friend literature counterfeit
True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
sex men lord
The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.
military mind body
A sound mind in a manly body.
military fall men
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
success fighting men
It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.
sadness land flames
Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.