39 Quotes About Iliad
- Author Janell Rhiannon
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You are the fire that burns within my heart. There is room for no other. When I die, it will be your Name upon my lips.
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Thetis knew this woman had conquered the unconquerable, without knowing she had done so.
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If you truly hope to win her over, be as honest with yourself as with her.
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I would not trade one day of our life for all the gold in the citadel.
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- Author Homer
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My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I will not return alive but my name will live forever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me.
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- Author Jorge Luis Borges
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In this night too, in this night of his mortal eyes into which he was now descending, love and danger were again waiting...a murmur of glory and hexameters, of men defending a temple the gods will not save, and of black vessels searching the sea for a beloved isle;the murmor of the Odysseys and Iliads it was his destiny to sing and leave echoing concavely in the memory of man.These things we know, but not those he felt descending into the last shade of all.
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- Author Marshall McLuhan
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Homer’s Iliad was the cultural encyclopedia of pre-literate Greece, the didactic vehicle that provided men with guidance for the management of their spiritual, ethical, and social lives.
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- Author Janell Rhiannon
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Life is to be tended like these trees and those vines.' He pointed across the field to the vineyard hanging with ripened fruit. 'Be mindful of the words and deeds you plant, for they will root and grow whatever you intend. It can be a blessing or a curse. And prune away the dead and sick from your life, making way for new.
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