Author: Homer

Cited by

• Anna Jarzab (1)
  • IN: Tandem (2013) Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction , American
    EPIGRAPH: "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."
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Poem, Greece
• Margaret Atwood (2)
  • IN: The Penelopiad (2006) Re-visionary fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “. . . he took a cable which had been service on a blue-bowed ship, made one end fast to a high column in the portico, and threw the other over the round-house, high up, so that their feet would not touch the ground. As when long-winged thrushes or doves get entangled in a snare . . . so the women's heads were held fast in a row, with nooses round their necks, to bring them to the most pitiable end. For a little while their feet twitched, but not for very long.”
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Poem, Greece
• Conn Iggulden (3)
  • IN: Genghis: Birth of an Empire (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
  • IN: Genghis, Birth of an Empire (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
  • IN: Wolf of the Plains (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Anita Nair (1)
  • IN: Idris: Keeper of the Light (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: But now your heart is set: you want to have the tale of all my trials - and I must add more tears to those I have already shed. What should I tell you first? What should be last? I've had so many griefs at heaven's hands. Let me begin by telling you my name, So that you, too, may know it.
    FROM: The Odyssey (verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum), (1990), Poem, Ancient Greece
• Shannon Delany (1)
  • IN: Weather Witch (2013) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There life is supremely easy for men. No snow is there, nor ever heavy winter storm, nor rain.
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Poem, Greece
• Mary Renault (1)
  • IN: The King Must Die (1958) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, Mother! I was born to die soon; but Olympian Zeus the Thunderer owes me some honour for it.
    FROM: Iliad, (-8), NULL, Greece
• Jenny Valentine (1)
  • IN: Fire Colour One (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Mary Karr (1)
  • IN: Lit (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Passage home? Never.
    FROM: The Odyssey, Book 5, (-750), Poem, Greece
• Brian Crawford (1)
  • IN: Prisoners of War: Rumors from the East (2017) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You've injured me, Farshooter, most deadly of the gods; and I'd punish you, if I had the power.
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Amit Chaudhuri (1)
  • IN: Odysseus Abroad (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: As for these changes in me, they are the work of the warrior goddess Athene, who can do anything, and makes me look as she wishes, at one moment like a beggar and at the next like a young man finely dressed. It is easy for the gods in heaven to make or mar a man's appearance.
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Poem, Greece
• Joe R. Lansdale (1)
  • IN: Edge of Dark Water (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A small rock holds back a great wave.
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Poem, Greece
• Charles Dubow (1)
  • IN: Girl in the Moonlight (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To the Sirens first shalt thou come, who beguile all men whosoever comes to them. Whoso in ignorance draws near to them and hears the Sirens' voice, he nevermore returns...
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Poem, Greece
• Kristopher Jansma (1)
  • IN: Why We Came to the City (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We do have prayers, you know, Prayers for forgiveness, daughters of mighty Zeus... 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 outstips them all by far, stealing a march, leaping over the whole wide earth to bring mankind to grief. And the Prayers trail after, trying to heal the wounds.
    FROM: The Iliad (trans. Robert Fagles), (-8), Poem, Greece
• Ben Bova (1)
  • IN: The Hittite (2010) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Zeus now addressed the immortals: “What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles when it is their own wickedness that brings them sufferings worse than any which Destiny allots them.
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Harry and Greenberg, Martin H. Turtledove (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
• R.L Stine (1)
  • IN: Red Rain (2012) Horror, American
    EPIGRAPH: But Zeus sent from heaven a show’r of blood-stain’d rain. In sign of many a warrior’s coming doom.
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Iris Smyles (1)
  • IN: Dating Tips for the Unemployed (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course... Launch out on his story, Muse, daughter of Zeus, start from where you will -- sing for our time too.
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Poem, Greece
• Louisa Young (2)
  • IN: The Heroes' Welcome (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “Joy, warm as the joy that shipwrecked sailors feel when they catch sight of the land . . . only a few escape, swimming and struggling out of the frothing surf to reach the shore, their bodies crusted with salt but buoyed up with joy as they plant their feet on solid ground again, spared a deadly fate. So joyous now to her the sight of her husband, vivid in her gaze, that her white arms, embracing his neck, would never for a moment let him go . . .”
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Poem, Greece
• Marcus Sakey (1)
  • IN: The Blade Itself (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The blade itself incites to violence.
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Poem, Greece
• Arnold Zable (1)
  • IN: Sea of Many Returns (2008) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: And now, speak and tell us truly: where have you been in your wanderings? Which parts of the inhabited world have you visited? What lovely cities did you see, what people in them? Did you meet hostile tribes with no sense of right and wrong, or did you fall in with hospitable and god fearing people?
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Poem, Greece
• Anakana Schofield (1)
  • IN: Martin John (2015) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Rage -- Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds and the will of Zeus was moving towards its end.
    FROM: The Rage of Achilles, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Dan Simmons (1)
  • IN: Ilium (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of possessions cattle and fat sheep are things to be had for the lifting, and tripods can be won, and the tawny high heads of horses, but a man’s life cannot come back again, it cannot be lifted nor captured again by force, once it has crossed the teeth’s barrier.
    FROM: Homer’s The Iliad, Book IX, 405–409, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Hannah Pittard (1)
  • IN: Listen to Me (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Listen to me and I will spaek: but first swear, by word and hand, that you will keep me safe with all your heart.
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Laura Lippman (1)
  • IN: Life Sentences (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I detest the man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
• David Gibbins (1)
  • IN: The Mask of Troy (None) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: His sharpen’d spear let every Grecian wield, And every Grecian fix his brazen shield; Let all excite the fiery steeds of war, And all for combat fit the rattling car. This day, this dreadful day, let each contend; No rest, no respite, till the shades descend; Till darkness, or till death, shall cover all: Let the war bleed, and let the mighty fall.
    FROM: Homer, The Iliad, Book II, lines 382-94, eighth century BC or earlier, translated by Alexander Pope, 1715-20, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Siobhan Fallon (1)
  • IN: You Know When the Men are gone (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She turned to descend the stair, her heart in tumult. Had she better keep her distance and question him, her husband? Should she run up to him, take his hands, kiss him now? ... And she, for a long time, sat deathly still in wonderment -- for sometimes as she gazed she found him -- yes, clearly -- like her husband, but sometimes blood and rags were all she saw.
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Book, Greece
• Thomas H. Cook (1)
  • IN: Master of the delta (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Look you now, how ready mortals are to blame the gods. It is from us, they say, that evils come, But they even of themselves, through their own blind folly, Have sorrows beyond that which is ordained.
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Poem, Greece
• Paul Doiron (1)
  • IN: The Bone Orchard (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let him lose all companions, and return under strange sail to bitter days at home.
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Book, Greece
• Margo Catts (1)
  • IN: Among the Lesser Gods (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), NULL, Greece
• Sam Bunny (1)
  • IN: Estuary (2011) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: As the generation of leaves, so is that of man
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Walter Scott (1)
  • IN: A Legend of Montrose (1819) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: My maid—my blue-eyed maid, he bore away, Due to the toils of many a bloody day.
    FROM: Illiad, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Samuel Butler (1)
  • IN: Erewhon Revisited (1901) Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: Him do I hate even as I hate Hell fire, Who says one thing, and hides another in his heart.
    FROM: Iliad, ix. 312, 313, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Francesca Lia Block (1)
  • IN: Love in the time of Global Warming (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oh my child, ill-fated beyond all other mortals, this is not Persephone, daughter of Zeus, beguiling you, but it is only what happens when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, And once the spirit has left the white bones, all the rest Of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, But the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.
    FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Book, Greece
• Beverly Lewis (1)
  • IN: Heritage of Lancaster Country Series (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
    FROM: Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
• McCormick Templeman (1)
  • IN: The Little Woods (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sinews no longer bind the flesh and bones together -- the fire in all its fury burns the body down to ashes once life slips from the white bones, and the spirit, rustling, flitters away... flown like a dream. But you must long for the daylight. Go quickly. Remember all these things.
    FROM: The Odyssey (translated by Robert Eagles), (1996), NULL, Greece