Iliad Quotes

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

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.

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 Odyssey.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.