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
wealth praise eternal
Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.
travel rivers rushing
One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.
calm familiar seasons
No season now for calm, familiar talk.
hate i-hate tales
I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.
war men hands
The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.
battle cures mere
We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.
tales hard
The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.
hunger dies
Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.
air weight woe
Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
strong men wife
The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.
sex soldier kind
The sex is ever to a soldier kind.
men shame beggar
A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.
song men dancer
One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure.
sky earth rage-from-the-iliad
Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth.