Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"Grief is endurable when one weeps with an ache in the heart during the day but can at least sleep at night and forget everything, good and bad, once one's eyelids close."

• The Odyssey (Book 20, approximately line 90) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"All his life a guest remembers
the host who has treated him kindly."

• The Odyssey (Book 15) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"A timid beggar is a bad beggar."

• The Odyssey (Book 17) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009. The quote comes from a line delivered by Penelope. She commenting on Odysseus, who was at the time disguised as a beggar.

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"It is the law of our mortal nature, when we
come to die. We no longer have sinews keeping the bones and
flesh together; once life has departed from our white bones, all
is consumed by the fierce heat of the blazing fire, and the soul
slips away like a dream and goes fluttering on its way."

• The Odyssey (Book 11) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"I would rather work the soil as a serf
on hire to some landless impoverished peasant
than be king of all these lifeless dead."

•  The Odyssey (Book 11) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.
  
  
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  Take a look at our video about The Iliad, The Odyssey and Troy, HERE.
  
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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700)

"Young people are thoughtless as a rule."

• The Odyssey (Book 7) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.

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