Homer Quotes

Ithaca…Heart racing, Odysseus that great exile
filled with joy to hear Athena, daughter of storming Zeus,
pronounce that name. He stood on native ground at last
and he replied with a winging word to Pallas,
not with a word of truth – he choked it back,
always invoking the cunning in his heart:
"Ithaca…yes, I seem to have heard of Ithaca,
even on Crete’s broad island far across the sea,
and now I’ve reached it myself, with all this loot,
but I left behind an equal measure for my children.
I’m a fugitive now, you see. I killed Idomeneus’ son,
Orsilochus, lightning on his legs, a man who beat
all runners alive on that long island – what a racer!
He tried to rob me of all the spoil I’d won at Troy."

– Homer