Top 13 Agamemnon The Iliad Quotes
#1. 'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
David Benioff
#2. In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,
Maurice Herzog
#3. I watched girls stroll by our table, glancing at Erik with half hidden interest before scurrying off. I wanted to shout at them to move along. We get it. He's good-looking.
R.S. Grey
#4. Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.
Charles Ives
#5. Instinctively we naturally want to guard or protect something we view as precious.
Sunday Adelaja
#7. The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it ... Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
Socrates
#8. After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?
Umberto Eco
#9. Man's mortality is therefore a phenomenon that runs counter to his nature in that it opposes that for which he has been designed. This is precisely why the human soul is restless: if life leads only to death, then nothing can ever be meaningful.
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
#10. Nothing will drive us to our knees quicker than trouble.
Billy Graham
#12. My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.
Alexa Chung
#13. Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.
Christopher Logue
