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
sarcastic sarcasm whole
And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.
hope expectations despair
Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.
ocean earth limits
For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.
life men needs
All men have need of the gods.
death suicide men
I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.
men earth breathe
Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.
educational philosophy people
Young people are thoughtless as a rule.
coffee tables rags
Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.
moving men breathing
Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.
women no-trust men-women
No trust is to be placed in women.
wine dark sea
Over the wine-dark sea.
wise wine men
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
uplifting unions conquer
The force of union conquers all.
men feet feminist
How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.