"The Children's Homer" Quotes
"The Children's Homer" is a retelling of the ancient Greek epics "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," simplified for young readers, focusing on the adventures of Odysseus and the events of the Trojan War.
juvenile fiction | Published in 2019
Quotes
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years on end.
The will of Zeus was moving toward its end.
Great Odysseus, the man of many devices, was away from his own country.
It is not right for us to sit like this, silent and sorrowful when there are deeds to be done.
The gods do not make it easy for us.
Courage, Odysseus, the gods have willed that you should come back to your own country.
The sea is a hard mistress, and it will have its way.
Even the best of men must face the trials that the gods ordain.
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.