Print This List    Email to a Friend  

Quotes From "The Iliad"  
FAVORITES 

Tags: Quotes, Saying, Said, Words, Famous, History, Attribute, Zues, Iliad

These are some quotes from "The Iliad" by Homer, a legendary ancient Greek poet.

	"The will of Zeus was accomplished."
	"Then looking at him darkly resourceful Odysseus spoke to him: 'What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?'"
	"So they spoke, and both springing down from behind their horses gripped each other's hands and exchanged the promise of friendship; but Zeus the son of Kronos stole away the wits of Glaukos who exchanged with Diomedes the son of Tydeus armour of gold for bronze, for nine oxen's worth the worth of a hundred."
	"Victory passes back and forth between men."
	"Man, supposing you and I, escaping this battle, would be able to live on forever, ageless, immortal, so neither would I myself go on fighting in the foremost, nor would I urge you into the fighting where men win glory. But now, seeing that the spirits of death stand close about us in their thousands, no man can turn aside or escape them, let us go on and win glory for ourselves, or yield it to others."
	"Among all creatures that breathe on earth and crawl on it there is not anywhere a thing more dismal than man is."
	"I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through; I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children."
	"And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once."

Lister: ListAfterList Wiki Contributors
Source: Compiled by LAL

Other lists of interest:

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." Mark Twain Quotes PEOPLE  (2)

"I shot myself ... I only hope I haven't botched it." Vincent van Gogh Quotes PEOPLE  (0)

"I am a deeply superficial person." Andy Warhol Quotes PEOPLE  (1)

"Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere." George Washington Quotes PEOPLE  (0)

"I see great things in baseball " Walt Whitman Quotes PEOPLE  (0)

This list not rated yet – be the first to rate it 

There are no comments for this list. Be the first to post!