Homer Quotes

“I have done my best to show that Homer was not a poet of pure fancy, but described real events and a real state of society.”

“In the Homeric poems, the sublime, the tragic, and the problematic are wanting.”

“My firm conviction is that Homer is a poet and not a historian.”

“The great and recurring question about Homer is, who was he?”

“Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor.”