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 hands outcomes
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
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.
war
I war not with the dead.
fighting total-war
Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power
running war heart
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!
warrior huge dies
Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.
war tired adversity
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
war world toil
Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.
peace war fighting
To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
war men hands
The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.
war play want
The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!
war men two
Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although we be but two. Great is the strength of feeble arms combined, And we can combat even with the brave.
song war men
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
war chance equal
The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.