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“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I’ve never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey' nights while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman.”

Women Travel Sleeping Wandering Payne Alexander The Great The Odyssey The Iliad

Book:Rooftop Soliloquy

Source: Rooftop Soliloquy

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”

Heart Homer The Iliad

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“We reached shallow sands and started to die as hails of spears and arrows landed on us. With our feet we had to fight waves of water, while with our hands we had to fight waves of men.”

Mythology Ancient Greece Epic Poetry Trojan War The Iliad

Book:Son of Nobody

Source: Son of Nobody

“A man cleared his throat and said he in a deep voice, “You won, Psoas, and you should have left it at that.” It was Hades, Lord of the Underworld. Psoas had meant to return to his tent, but instead he was hoisted up in the air, the dark lord holding him tightly by the scrotum, his fist a hard ball and his knuckles white.”

Mythology Hades Ancient Greece Greek Gods Epic Poetry Trojan War The Iliad

Book:Son of Nobody

Source: Son of Nobody

“Shame on you Argives, we are now utterly undone, unless we can save ourselves by driving the enemy from our ships. Do you think, if Hector takes them, that you will be able to get home by land? Can you not hear him cheering on his whole host to fire our fleet, and bidding them remember that they are not at a dance but in battle?”

War Humor Humorous Mythology Homer Ajax The Iliad Argives

Author:Homer Translated by Samuel Butler

“When night falls and the world lies lost in sleep, I take to my bed, my heart throbbing, about to break, anxieties swarming, piercing—I may go mad with grief.”

Greek Mythology Homer The Odyssey The Iliad

Book:The odyssey

Source: The odyssey

“Command thy vassals, but command not me.”

Greek Mythology The Iliad

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“All right then. Here's my story. Even though it plunges me into deeper grief than I feel now. But that's the way of the world, when one has been so far from home, so long away as I, roving over many cities of men, enduring many hardships.”

Greek Mythology Homer The Odyssey The Iliad

Book:The odyssey

Source: The odyssey

“Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me death." Caesar, in his Commentaries, says, "To the lonely it is company; to the forsaken it is a friend; to the aged and to the impotent it is a benefactor. They that are penniless are yet rich, in that they still have this majestic diversion." In another place this experienced observer has said, "There are times when I prefer it to sodomy." Robinson Crusoe says, "I cannot describe what I owe to this gentle art." Queen Elizabeth said, "It is the bulwark of virginity." Cetewayo, the Zulu hero, remarked, "A jerk in the hand is worth two in the bush." The immortal Franklin has said, "Masturbation is the best policy." Michelangelo and all of the other old masters--"old masters," I will remark, is an abbreviation, a contraction--have used similar language. Michelangelo said to Pope Julius II, "Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse." Mr. Brown, here, in one of his latest and most graceful poems, refers to it in an eloquent line which is destined to live to the end of time--"None knows it but to love it; none name it but to praise.”

Masturbation Iliad Queen Elizabeth Homer Robinson Crusoe Caesar Michelangelo Onanism The Iliad Sodomy Zulu Benjamin Franklin Cetewayo

Book:On Masturbation

Source: On Masturbation

“The white-horsed myth.”

Willis Barnstone The Iliad Stesichoros

Author:Stesichoros

“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.”

Women Sleep Dreams Greek Heroism Classics Roman Homer Alexander The Great The Odyssey The Iliad Waning Moon

Book:Rooftop Soliloquy

Source: Rooftop Soliloquy

“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.”

Women Sleep Dreams Army Heroism Traveling Wandering Alexander The Great The Odyssey The Iliad Wayfaring Waning Moon

Book:Rooftop Soliloquy

Source: Rooftop Soliloquy