Homer
Homer
Homeris best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
war home sea
All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.
war civil-war homeless
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.
hateful miserable mortals
All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.
glorious
Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.
father fall son
Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
wander mortals
There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
war nice wind
Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.
beer my-love-for-you trustworthy
Ah, good ol’ trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die.
war play want
The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!
pain men long
For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.
home sight long
I long for home, long for the sight of home.
winning men hands
What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
hands enemy age
[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.
panic selling i-can
All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.