Iliad Quotes - Page 3

• The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Book, Race, Length

  "Johannes Gutenberg printed playing cards the same year as his famous Bible (1440). The cards from Gutenberg's press were Tarot cards, from which the modern deck is derived. The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Succeed, Action

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• Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

  Roger Ebert

  Epic, Credit, Should

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Light, Sea, Sound

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”, p.217

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• Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.

  Simone Weil

  People, Personality, Architecture

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.13, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religion, Soil, Opinion

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.294, Courier Corporation

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• Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Greatness, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.73

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• For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.

  Denis O'Hare

  Mean, Stories, Hearing

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• Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

  Propertius

  Greek, Rooms, Born

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• Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. 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

  Jobs, Book, Journey

  "A Defense of Nonsense". "The Defendant" by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

  Philip Pullman

  Stories, Odyssey, Storytelling

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. And the way I would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, I'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. I did believe that.

  Philip Pullman

  Teacher, Real, Believe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets. The Iliad is not Sabbath but morning reading, and men cling to this old song, because they still have moments of unbaptized and uncommitted life, which give them an appetite for more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Song, Morning, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.275, Delphi Classics

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• The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

  Joseph Joubert

  Religion

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

  Raymond Queneau

  Fiction, Odyssey, Descendants

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• No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

  Julian Jaynes

  Evil, Puppets, Moral

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

  David Frawley

  Civilization, Generations, Stories

  David Frawley (2000). “The Oracle of Rama”, p.16, Lotus Press

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• If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, Science, House

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• If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Education, Numbers, Typewriters

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile”, p.1504, Random House

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• If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Alive, World

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• I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

  Andre Dubus

  War, Writing, Men

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

  Alice Oswald

  Real, Animal, Light

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• It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

  Raymond Queneau

  Odyssey, Seems

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• Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.

  Harold Bloom

  Plato, Order, Ideas

  Harold Bloom (2004). “Where Shall Wisdom be Found?”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade

  Propertius

  Spring, Birth, Greater

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