Homer – Baiting the Bear

Passe, Crispijn de, the Elder. Speculum Heroicum Principis Omnium Temporum Poetarum Homeri, Id Est Argumenta XXIV Librorum Iliados Homeri. Utrecht: Ex officina Typographica Crispini Passaei, 1613.

Hobbes trans. Homer’s Illiads in English

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:April 25, 1676
Post category:Library - Modern

"Sleeps the wise son of Atreus? It is wrong For him to sleep a whole night out, to whom The care of such a people doth belong, And has to do so many things to come. Now listen to me, I from Jove am sent, Who though he be far off, yet cares for you; He bids you arm the Greeks, and out of hand Bring down your forces to the Trojan field."

Van Thulden, Theodor. Les Travaux d’Ulysse, desseignez par le Sieur de Sainct Martin, de la façon qu’ils se voyent dans la maison Royalle de Fontainebleau. Paris: Melchior Tavernier, 1633.

Hobbes trans. Homer’s Odysses

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:April 25, 1675
Post category:Library - Modern

"And Argos, which lay there, pricked up his ear, And wagged his tail, but could not rise, for he Was very old, and knew his master near, Who, unseen, wiped a tear from his own eye." (Book 17, lines 282–285)

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Homer the Illiad

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:October 15, 0001
Post category:Library - Ancients

"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter."

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Homer The Odyssey

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:January 22, 0001
Post category:Library - Ancients

"We are all woven in the dark tapestry of fate."

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Homeric Poems

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:January 22, 0001
Post category:Excurses

"Cyclops, try this wine—flesh of the grape, it is— just see what stock we carried in our hold. This was the drink I planned to offer you, hoping you would receive me, treat me well, and speed me home. But you rage on, unbearable, madman that you are."