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
war home sea
All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.
evil looks woe
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
winning men hands
What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
glorious
Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.
war civil-war homeless
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.
giving pay fame
The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.
eye names fame
But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
fate woe toil
Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.
fate men balance
Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.
deeds lasts firsts
My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.
wise children father
It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]
rogues
One rogue leads another.
stars lying never-lie
The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.
hateful miserable mortals
All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.