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.”

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

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

“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.”