Quotes About Trojan War

#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. The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

B.W. Powe

#3. I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

Lord Byron

#4. Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?"
"Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?"
"Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.

Rick Riordan

#5. Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it.

Janine Di Giovanni

#6. Odysseus was a great hero in the Trojan War. When he left Troy to sail home to Ithaca, he was lost at sea for ten years. He begged the brave and mighty Zeus for help, and kindly Zeus sent winds to take him home.

Kate McMullan

#7. In fact, if Paris had not been seated next to Helen when he dined in the court of Menelaus, there never would have been a Trojan War." A

Amor Towles

#8. Smiles from girls like you are what started the Trojan War.

Amanda Lance

#9. I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you'll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.

David Benioff

#11. What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?"
"I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you."
"Why?"
"Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?

Rick Riordan

#12. Jealousy is the opposite of maintaining and growing in a relationship. Jealousy includes elements of fear, anger, suspicion, and control that have no place in a mature relationship.

Darrel Ray

#13. I will forever be hers, no matter where her life leads her without me. ****

Meghan Quinn

#14. They came back
To widows,
To fatherless children,
To screams, to sobbing.
The men came back
As little clay jars
Full of sharp cinders.

Aeschylus

#15. Hero," he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father's. "Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the Trojans. We are of the Herdsmen.

Sulari Gentill

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

Emily Hauser

#17. Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

Maynard James Keenan

#18. I've gotten emails from people who purchased items from an infomercial, only to find out that the shipping was more expensive than the item itself. The lesson: If you truly want to order something you see on TV, go online to the product's website and see if you can find out more information.

Jean Chatzky

#19. I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#20. The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.

Jane Smiley

#21. Are the legends true?" asked Cadmus. "Of course they are," replied Pan. "We live in an age of legends.

Sulari Gentill

#22. It's hard whenever someone makes the wrong choice that affects others around him, but you can't let that change who you are.

Lisa Harris

#23. Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.

John Lennon

#24. Silence. Silence. Why is it always about silence? I wish both of us could tell the world and be free from the chains we drag around.

Jessica Sorensen

#25. I'm a relatively unfocused person.

Michael Korda

#26. I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?

Gail Sheehy

#27. There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

John Ruskin

#28. That is - your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.

Madeline Miller