Homer
Poet
"Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans."
Rage From The Iliad quotes
Rage From The Iliad
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Homer
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"Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."
Homer
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"Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!"
Homer
Poet
"His descent was like nightfall."
Homer
Poet
"But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me."
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"…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives."
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"Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?"
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"A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth."
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"Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth."
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"Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade."
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"My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius"
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