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Best online collection of The Iliad quotes by Homer at AllGreatQuotes. Nearly 500 quotes with analysis, characters, themes, epic similes.
The Iliad Quotes Showing 1-30 of 473. “…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”. ― Homer, The Iliad. tags: classics, greece, longing, love, lovers.
Explanation of the famous quotes in The Iliad, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
Quote 1. (Zeus:) Ah me, that it is destined that the dearest of men, Sarpedon, must go down under the hands of Menoitios' son Patroklos. The heart in my breast is balanced between two ways as I ponder, whether I should snatch him out of the sorrowful battle.
7 sie 2024 · The Iliad (Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς, Iliás, "[a poem] about Ilion ") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. As with the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter. It contains 15,693 lines in its most widely accepted version.
Read these quotes from The Iliad. “Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses…”. “Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.”.
Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Iliad. Fate and Free Will Quotes and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians, hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls of heroes, but gave their bodies to be the delicate feasting of do...
