Iliad
(Lyrics by Odysseas Elitis, Asine, summer '38) ("áóßíçí ôå: áóßíçí ôå:" is greek windows encoding!) We looked all morning around the castle Starting from the shaded side, There where the...
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(based on Homer's Iliad) As time marches back to infinity I behold in my eyes That this land of serenity Once was a furnace of fire. At swords, were the gods of the heavens For the plight of the city...
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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.
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It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
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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...
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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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...
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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.
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