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Iliad Achilles Quotes & Sayings
Showing search results for "Iliad Achilles" sorted by relevance. 43 matching entries found.
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There is a wonderful passage in the Odyssey where Odysseus meets the ghost of Achilles in Hades. They are profoundly courteous to each other. Odysseus, outlining his own toils, reminds Achilles that the supreme honor which the latter receives from all makes light of death; but Achilles, complimenting Odysseus on the magnificence of his adventures, answers that there is no consolation in death, for it is better to be the living slave of a poor man than king of all the dead. Yet, it is hard to imagine Achilles as the slave of a poor man, and hard to believe that he is speaking a literal truth. He is emphasizing the cost of his greatness, the incurable sorrow of being Achilles. He is saying, "I have suffered the wrost, and identified myself with it; you have merely survived. And Odysseus, for his part, says: "you are very honored indeed, but you are dead; I am doing the really difficult and great thing." In the gulf between the two men, and their characteristic views of life, in a few lin
Cedric H Whitman
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To the semidivine hero, the mere fact of ruling over more men does not constitute greatness, and as for glory from Zeus, Achilles will prove by example which of them has more. The contest between Achilles and Agamemnon becomes from the outset a contest between internal and external values...
Cedric H Whitman
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Never hesitate!
Achilles
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Always to be best, and to be distinguished above the rest.
The Iliad
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She was smiling through her tears.
The Iliad
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Over the wine-dark sea.
The Iliad
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If I hurt you, it's not what I wanted
Achilles
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Victory passes back and forth between men.
The Iliad
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Nothing can be revoked or said in vain nor unfulfilled if I should nod my head.
The Iliad
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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
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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
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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
Raymond Queneau
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The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere.
Cedric H Whitman
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One came to the war all over gold, like a girl. Poor fool! it did not save him from cruel death.
The Iliad
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
Raymond Queneau
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
Raymond Queneau
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau
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I would say that my biggest flaw, my Achilles heel, is my tireless work ethic.
Danny Mcbride
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The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
Arthur Erickson
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