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Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος) is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets.
Also known as: Homer's Odyssey, Homeric
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The recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all.
I'll fling a spear myself and leave the rest to Zeus.
Iliad (-750)
It is a wise child that knows his own father.
Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies;
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind,
He slept an iron sleep,—
Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd.
A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
Far from the gay cities, and the ways of men.
The mildest manners and the gentlest heart.
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
The mildest manners with the bravest mind.
He held his seat; a friend to human race.
And not a man appears to tell their fate.
His native home deep imag'd in his soul.
It is not right to exult over slain men.
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