Homer Ancient Greece Famous Quotes & Sayings

Like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. — Homer

That is the god's work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come ... — Homer

[A historian] will more seriously deplore the loss of the Byzantine libraries, which were destroyed or scattered in the general confusion: one hundred and twenty thousand manuscripts are said to have disappeared; ten volumes might be purchased for a single ducat; and the same ignominious price, too high perhaps for a shelf of theology, included the whole works of Aristotle and Homer, the noblest productions of the sciences and literature of ancient Greece. — Edward Gibbon