quotes about Iliad
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
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Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade
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It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
-- Raymond Queneau -
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
-- Raymond Queneau -
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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
-- Raymond Queneau -
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
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The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.
-- Richard Arnold EpsteinSource : "Johannes Gutenberg printed playing cards the same year as his famous Bible (1440). The cards from Gutenberg's press were Tarot cards, from which the modern deck is derived. The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.
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“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”
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Source : "'Zoolander': Ben Stiller Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.
