Quotes About Homeric

#1. It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics.

Nic Fields

#2. I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the "hot bread and sweet cakes;" and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for renunciation through a derivative: heroism.

Emil Cioran

#5. O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

Mortimer Collins

#6. Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

Camille Paglia

#7. The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way to Santa Monica. Wayfaring Stranger Pg. 415

James Lee Burke

#8. The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

W. H. Auden

#9. 'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

Tariq Ali

#10. For which he had to pay "1 panegyrick poem every year." That is Homeric rent.

Adam Nicolson

#11. I only wish we could stay for his grief - it should be Homeric.

William Goldman

#12. What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

Robert Fitzgerald

#13. Istory is best explained dramatically, because for God's sake nobody's going to tell me that massive Homeric war so to speak, between the Achaens and the Iliums was caused merely by some economic factor concerning trade ...

Jack Kerouac

#14. At least some of the items in a Homeric list of the aretai would clearly not be counted by most of us nowadays as virtues at all, physical strength being the most obvious example.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#15. 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 J. Adler

#16. One thing we can all control is effort

Mark Cuban

#17. He had learned that dignity could not be acquired from accoutrements and accessories; it cam unasked, it grew from one's ability to endure.

Rohinton Mistry

#18. love we give and receive is all that matters and all that is remembered. Suffering disappears - love remains

Jack Canfield

#19. As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.

Michael Moore

#20. I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.

Arthur Penn

#21. Choose,' she says, reaching out towards him. 'Choose to which of us the apple most belongs...

Emily Hauser

#22. He should be named Lord Simpleton," Olivia said, frankly. Pippa chuckled. "Stop. He's nice enough. He likes dogs." She looked to Penelope. "As does Tommy." "This is what we've come to? Choosing our potential husbands because they like dogs?" Olivia asked.

Sarah MacLean

#23. Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

William Penn

#24. In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

Sophia Bush

#25. I never believed that angels exist, until I met you.

M.F. Moonzajer

#26. With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

Islom Karimov

#27. Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair.

Alice Dreger