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Homer Quotes about War

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To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

Peace, War, Fighting

Homer, W. C. Armstrong (1851). “Translation of the Iliad of Homer”, p.267

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

War, Home, Sea

Homer (1981). “The illustrated Odyssey”

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

Running, War, Heart

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

War, Hands, Outcomes

Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!

Military, War, Fall

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.

War, Toil, World

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

War, Men, Hands

Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although we be but two. Great is the strength of feeble arms combined, And we can combat even with the brave.

War, Men, Air

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.

War, Wine, Dark

Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.4415, Delphi Classics

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

Kings, War, Royalty

Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.44

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

Love, War, Tired

It is not right to exult over slain men.

War, Men

"The Odyssey". Epic poem by Homer, c. 725 BC.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

War, Civil War, Homeless

Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, Penguin

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

War, Nice, Wind

Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, Penguin

The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

War, Play, Want

Homer (1963). “The Iliad: the story of Achilles”, New American Library of Canada

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Song, War, Men

I war not with the dead.

War

Homer, W. C. Armstrong (1851). “Translation of the Iliad of Homer”, p.168

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

War, Chance, Slayer

Homer (1898). “The Iliad of Homer”

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