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
son rage-from-the-iliad achilles
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
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.
rage-from-the-iliad wealth life-is
My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius
rage-from-the-iliad nightfall fate-in-the-iliad
His descent was like nightfall.
looks use rage-from-the-iliad
But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.
wife rage-from-the-iliad fields
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
men rage-from-the-iliad sacred
Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?
house rage-from-the-iliad forget
Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.
men earth rage-from-the-iliad
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
death iliad inches
Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
fool done iliad
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
men victory iliad
Victory passes back and forth between men.
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.
would-be iliad
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.