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Victory passes back and forth between men.
Homer / Author
Men
Iliad
Victory
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
Joseph Joubert / Writer
Religion
Iliad
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Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
Homer / Author
Done
Fool
Iliad
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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
Raymond Queneau / Novelist
Creation
Iliad
Rehabilitation
Concerns
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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
Homer / Author
Death
Iliad
Inches
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It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
Homer / Author
Fighting
Iliad
Strive
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If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
Homer / Author
Iliad
Thinking
Valiant
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
Raymond Queneau / Novelist
Disorder
Iliad
People
Thrown
Private Lives
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Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'
P. J. O'rourke / Satirist
Glorious
Iliad
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It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
Homer / Author
Iliad
Lasts
Long
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The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.
Richard Arnold Epstein /
Book
Iliad
Race
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Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade
Propertius / Poet
Birth
Iliad
Spring
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Aldous Huxley / Writer
Ifs
Iliad
Names
Author
Homer
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He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
Homer / Author
Iliad
Would Be
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Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.
Propertius / Poet
Greek
Iliad
Rooms
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It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau / Novelist
Iliad
Odyssey
Seems
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau / Novelist
Descendants
Fiction
Iliad
Odyssey
Works
Classify
Easily
Either
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Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.
Roger Ebert / Film Critic
Credit
Epic
Iliad
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It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.
Chang-Rae Lee / Novelist
Iliad
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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.
Philip Pullman / Film Writer
Iliad
Odyssey
Stories
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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
Victor Hugo / Poet
Flow
Iliad
Three
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For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Hearing
Iliad
Mean
Meant To Be
Stories
Determines
Import
Ultimately
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'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.
Katherine Dunn / Novelist
Grit
Iliad
Metaphor
Pressure
Probing
Athletes
Writers
Reporting
Snappy
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The ancient world is always accessible, no matter what culture you come from. I remember when I was growing up in India and I read the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey.'
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni / Author
Ancient
Iliad
Odyssey
Remember When
Accessible
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The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.
George Saintsbury / Writer
Iliad
Magnificent
Odyssey
Romance
Stories
West
Indeed
Poem
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Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.
Simon Toyne /
Brilliant
Epic
Iliad
Odyssey
Lends
Narratives
Quest
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
P. J. O'rourke / Satirist
Batteries
Handy
Iliad
Inconvenience
Bringing
Electronic
Except
Homer
Recite
Returns
Scroll
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I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.'
Kevin Bleyer / Writer
High Art
Iliad
Benefit
Forms
Cable
Suppose
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The 'Iliad' covered only two months of the great ten-year war with Troy. At least six other epic poems preceded or continued the events in the 'Iliad', but they survive only as fragments.
Adrienne Mayor / Historian
Covered
Epic
Fragments
Iliad
Survive
Troy
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Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau / Novelist
Character
Fiction
Historical
Historical Value
Iliad
Imaginary
Odyssey
Presenting
True Story
Placing
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I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!
Caroline Lawrence / Author
Contemporary
Iliad
Relevant
Languages
Translation
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When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'
Franz Wright / Poet
Fourth
Iliad
Nine
Odyssey
Grade
Homer
Started Reading
Third
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'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.
Karl Marlantes / Author
Iliad
Odyssey
Certain Level
Dig
Gotta
Resonate
Tale
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If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.
Alice Oswald / Poet
Attending
Iliad
Silk
Be Real
Homer
Leaf
Leaves
Real People
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One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.
Alice Oswald / Poet
Brightness
Crowded
Dangerous
Ghost
Greek
Iliad
Lament
Rules
Name
Case
Dead
Invoking
Mention
Piece
Poem
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'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
David Benioff / Novelist
Achilles
Adaptation
Entirety
Halfway
Iliad
Myth
Nine
Scene
Slave
Begins
Equivalent
Occurs
Quarrel
Script
Troy
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'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever agenda I have gets buried in a work this great. If you're being honest, you realize that, as an artist, you're not a policy maker.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Being Honest
Buried
Iliad
Achieved
Wars
Maker
Solved
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My wife, Lisa, and I both grew up on wuxia - Chinese historical romances. They're kind of analogous to Western epics. They're based on history, just like 'the Iliad' and 'the Odyssey' are based on history, but they're romanticized, and a lot of fantasy elements have been added.
Ken Liu / Fiction Writer
Chinese
Elements
Fantasy
Historical
Iliad
Odyssey
Western
Wife
Added
Based
Epics
Romances
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I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.
Alice Oswald / Poet
British Empire
Frustration
Greek
Iliad
Public School
Heroes
Cliched
Empire
Poem
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What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I read about Achilles and Odysseus in Homer's 'Iliad,' I can see parallels in Chinese historical romances, in the way the first emperor of the Han dynasty and his chief rival are portrayed.
Ken Liu / Fiction Writer
Achilles
Chinese
Connections
Dynasty
Emperor
Fascinating
Historical
Iliad
Parallels
Chief
Homer
Portrayed
Terms
Rival
Romances
View
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Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.
Alice Oswald / Poet
Biographies
Iliad
Ordinary
Plot
Addition
Anonymous
Inhabit
Mothers
Neighbours
Soldiers
Stripped
Trip
Wives
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The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across - were in 'The Iliad': the escape of Aeneas with his father on his back, the Trojans, from their burning city, and the defeat of their kingdom and what they had to do to try and find safety.
Vanessa Redgrave / Actress
Burning
Defeat
Iliad
Safety
Escape
Refugees
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