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
mother children father
If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.
sight mind of-sight-out-of-mind
out of sight,out of mind
fame vulgar
The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.
heart men great-men
The hearts of great men can be changed.
men race earth
Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.
kings honor proud
Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.
fool done iliad
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
dream fate men
Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born.
men victory iliad
Victory passes back and forth between men.
imagination vancouver may
Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.
brother men forget
Forget the brother and resume the man.
fighting men steel
Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.
shame poor comrade
Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.
age birth
The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth.