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!

Homer

Mots clés war death classics cowardice greece

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Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.

Homer

Mots clés death classics pride greece

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…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

Homer

Mots clés death classics greece

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…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin. But Ruin is strong and swift—She outstrips them all by far, stealing a march, leaping over the whole wide earth to bring mankind to grief.

Homer

Mots clés ambition classics grief greece ruin

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And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself—more birds than women flocking round his body!

Homer

Mots clés death mourning classics grief greece

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You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

Homer

Mots clés family classics greece insult

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Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

Homer

Mots clés wisdom fate death classics grief greece

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Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

Homer

Mots clés love passion peace classics greece

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Mistress; please: are you divine, or mortal?

Homer

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And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.

Homer

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