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Illiad Quotes

“Always, in these times, I am wretched save when sleep comes to me. Therefore, I have come to look upon sleep as the best of all gifts.” - Helen, about the war”

Book:Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of The Iliad

Source: Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of The Iliad

“And then I remembered: he will never be old.”

Love Gay Patroclus The Song Of Achilles Achilles And Patroclus Illiad

Book:The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“Achilles shook him. "Just come back.”

Myth Greek Achilles Patroclus Troy Patrochilles Illiad Hellenic

Book:The Silence of the Girls

Source: The Silence of the Girls

“Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.”

Scholarship Biography Homer Illiad

Book:The Classics Reclassified

Source: The Classics Reclassified

“Helen All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face, the lustre as of olives where she stands, and the white hands. All Greece reviles the wan face when she smiles, hating it deeper still when it grows wan and white, remembering past enchantments and past ills. Greece sees, unmoved, God’s daughter, born of love, the beauty of cool feet and slenderest knees, could love indeed the maid, only if she were laid, white ash amid funereal cypresses.”

Book:Collected Poems, 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems, 1912-1944

“Never lose sight of the fact that writing is a strange, inhuman function, a reflection of the inhumanity of language itself. Through writing, language, which is a domestic species, becomes a wild one again.”

Writing Inhumanity Illiad

Book:Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

“Ἀμαζόνες ἀντιάνειραι”

Author:Homer