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Iliad Quotes

Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind. He said: I made the Iliad from such. A local row. Gods make their own importance. Patrick Kavanagh
...The first dictionaries were glossaries of Homeric words, intended to help Romans read the Iliad and Odyssey as well as other Greek literature employing the 'archaic' Homeric vocabulary. Mortimer Adler
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do you realize that all great literature? "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Iliad and The Odyssey," "Crime and Punishment," the Bible, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade"? are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being? Kurt Vonnegut
With Cosette’s garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would call him Nestor. Victor Hugo
Harold Bloom quote: "Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like..."
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. Harold Bloom
But anyhow it is true that this, which is our first poem, might very well be our last poem too. It might well be the last word as well as the first word spoken by man about his mortal lot, as seen by merely mortal vision. If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Aldous Huxley quote: "The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer,..."
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. Aldous Huxley
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. George Saintsbury
Raymond Queneau quote: "The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder..."
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau quote: "One can easily classify all works of fiction either as..."
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau quote: "It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's..."
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau quote: "A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation."
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation. Raymond Queneau
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. Raymond Queneau

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