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
funny-simpsons funniest-simpsons great-simpsons
I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.
life success broken-heart
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
laughing teach
I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny!
beautiful rage-from-the-iliad chaos
Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
inspirational motivation moving
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
life-and-love literature daring
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
lying two together
Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.
men mad magic
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
war wine dark
Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.
summer stars ocean
...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.
want cows meat
If God didn't want us to eat cows, why are they made out of meat?
inspirational brother teenager
For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother
mother beer smell
A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!
fate insightful hardship
It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.