The Odyssey (English)
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“See now, how men consider us gods responsible [aitioi] for what is after all nothing but their own folly. Look at Aigisthos; he must needs make love to Agamemnon’s wife unrighteously and then kill Agamemnon, though he knew it would be the death of him; for I sent Hermes to warn him not to do either of these things, inasmuch as Orestes would be sure to take his revenge when he grew up and wanted to return home. Hermes told him this in all good will but he would not listen, and now he has paid for everything in full.’” (source)
“Tell me, O Muse, of that many-sided hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy” (source)
“Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Odysseus, and keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of life, and thinks of nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his own chimneys. You, sir, take no heed of this, and yet when Odysseus was before Troy did he not propitiate you with many a burnt sacrifice? Why then should you keep on being so angry with him?’” (source)
“would rather be a paid servant in a poor man’s house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead” (source)
“You have feared neither the gods nor that there would be future nemesis from men, and now you shall die.” (source)
- Title: The Odyssey (English)
- Authors: Homer, Samuel Butler
- Publisher: Perseus Digital Library
- Print Publication Date: 1900
- Logos Release Date: 2011
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Classics › English--History
- Resource ID: LLS:HOMODBUTLERENG
- Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-01-18T21:40:41Z