Homer

"…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."

"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."

"I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, you too shall live but for a little season; death and the day of your doom are close upon you, and they will lay you low by the hand of Achilles son of …"

"I am foremost of all the Trojan warriors to stave the day of bondage from off them; as for you, vultures shall devour you here."

"The Iliad of Homer, trans. Edward, Earl of Derby"

"The Iliad quotes analyzed; study guide and teaching guide"

"The Odyssey of Homer, trans. Philip Stanhope Worsley and John Conington"

"Somewhere along the Ionian coast opposite Crete and the islands was a town of some sort, probably of the sort that we should call a village or hamlet with a wall. It was called Ilion but it came to be…"