Iliad Quotes

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

Victory passes back and forth between men.

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.