Homer Quotes
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
Anne Carson
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It has been said that Homer was the Bible of the Greeks. The remark exactly misses the truth. The Greeks fortunately had no Bible, and this fact was both an expression and an important condition of their freedom. Homer's poems were secular, not religious, and it may be noted that they are freer from immorality and savagery than sacred books that one could mention.
J. B. Bury
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The Bible’s claim to truth is not only far more urgent than Homer’s, it is tyrannical—it excludes all other claims. The world of the Scripture stories is not satisfied with claiming to be a historically true reality—it insists that it is the only real world, is destined for autocracy.
Erich Auerbach
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The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.
Edward Mazria
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This was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.
Adam Nicolson
