Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare. . . . The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.
Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.
Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.
I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey. " I told those stories many, many times.
It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Victory passes back and forth between men.
A very great Iliad. . . concerns the creation of a nation.
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M. A. S. H. ' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad. '
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
