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“If only conflict were eliminated from gods and human beings!”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Through the will of Zeus your earlier request has been fulfilled. With arms raised high you prayed that all the Greeks, confined beside the shipsâ€� sterns, would endure terrible suffering and mortal danger and yearn for you. So it has been fulfilled.â€� Swift-footed Lord Achilles, groaning, answered, “Yes, Mother, Zeus has granted me that prayer.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Cursed with the best of sons, I bore a child who shot up like a sapling and became the strongest and the best of warriors.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Achilles groaned, heartbroken. He howled in agony.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“At this, a black cloud of despair engulfed Achilles. With both hands he scooped up fistfuls of soot and dust and poured it on his head, 30 and rubbed the dirt across his handsome face.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Achilles, son of skillful Peleus, I need to tell you disastrous news. I wish it had not happened. Dead lies Patroclus and the armies fight 20 around his corpse, stripped of your arms and weapons, which Hector in his flashing helmet wears.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“And yet there was no ending of the war.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“The Trojans triumph. And the very best of all the Greeks has now been killed—Patroclus. 690 The Greeks are devastated by his loss. So run down to the ships and tell Achilles, and he may come in time to save the body, although it is too late to save the armor, which Hector, in his flashing helmet, wears.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Even a fool would see that Zeus is helping 630 the Trojans! Whether weak or strong, they always achieve their aim with every spear they throw!”
― Homer, The Iliad

“So I shall cast my spear but it is Zeus who will determine how all this will turn out.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“That day, Zeus stretched the painful work of war for men and horses, struggling for Patroclus. But all the while, godlike Achilles still knew nothing of his death, because the battle 520 was very far away from the swift ships, beneath the wall of Troy, and he had not expected in his heart his friend would die.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“You are not thinking about death at all, but death is near you.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“With this, great Hector in his flashing helmet 190 ran from the battlefield on nimble feet after his comrades, who were carrying the armor of Achilles back to Troy. He soon caught up—they had not gone too farâ€� and standing at a distance from the fighting, the source of tears, he changed into this armor. He gave his own equipment to the Trojans to carry back with them to holy Troy, 250 and armed himself in the immortal armor of great Achilles, son of Peleus.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Fools understand too late, when done is done.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Words are for council meetings. War needs hands. This is no time to talk. We need to fight.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Bring me fire! Come on, all of you, gather here and fight together!”
― Homer, The Iliad

“The Greeks expected death.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Hector rushed from the throng of well-armed Trojan fightersâ€� 690 just as an eagle, with his wings aflame, attacks a flock of long-necked swans or cranes or geese, as they are feeding by a river, 910 so Hector rushed towards the dark-prowed ship.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“But Hector, dazzling as fire, leapt in among the crowd, as when a wave 830 is fed by wind beneath the clouds, and growing violent, crashes on a sailing ship, which is all covered in the frothing waterâ€� a dreadful blast of wind shrieks through the sailâ€� the sailors tremble and are terrifiedâ€� their chances of survival seem so slimâ€� so low Greek hearts sank, full of fear and dread.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Pallas Athena was already bringing his day of death beneath Achillesâ€� hands.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“He raged like Ares brandishing his spear, or deadly fire that rages in the mountains, across the brush and thickets of a forest.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Zeus was riling up the Trojans.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“The aid of Zeus 490 can easily be recognized by humans.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Hector has risen up. He has survived!”
― Homer, The Iliad

“No other deathless god will be allowed to help the Greeks until I have fulfilled 100 the wishes of the son of Peleus, Achilles, as I promised I would do, and nodded with my head to make it certain, the day the goddess Thetis touched my knees imploring me to glorify Achilles, the city-sacker.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Until that time, my anger will not cease.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Let Hector turn the Greeks around again and make them panic, lose their will to fight, and run away until at last they fall amid the mighty galleys of Achilles, the son of Peleus. He will send forth his friend Patroclus, who will slaughter many, including my own noble son, Sarpedon. Then glorious Hector, out in front of Troy, 90 will kill Patroclus with his spear, and then, enraged at this, Achilles will kill Hector.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Then sorrow seized the Trojans.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“The goddess Hera skated across the very highest peaks and with her feet she never touched the ground.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“flirtation makes the wisest lose their minds.”
― Homer, The Iliad