Author: Harry and Greenberg, Martin H. Turtledove
Cites
- Homer (1)
- IN: The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Sing, goddess, of the accursed rage of Akhilleus
Son of Peleus, which gave pain to countless Akhaioi,
Sent the many sturdy souls of warriors to
Hades, and left their bodies as spoil for all the dogs
And birds of prey….
FROM: Iliad 1.1–5, (-8), Poem, Greece
- Robert E. Lee (1)
- IN: The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
FROM: Comment to James Longstreet, on seeing a Union charge repelled in the Battle of Fredericksburg (13 December 1862), (1862), Conversation, US