The Hsin-hsin-ming of Seng-ts'an, lines 61–68
Translations, Trust in Mind (2008)
Famous Stanley Lombardo Quotes
Book VI, lines 1016–1018; Anchises to Aeneas.
Translations, Aeneid (2005)
Book XI, lines 510–513; spoken by the ghost of Achilles.
Translations, Odyssey (2000)
“Shimmering,
iridescent,
deathless Aphrodite.”
Frag. 1
Translations, Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)
“Whoever escapes marriage
And women's harm, comes to deadly old age
Without any son to support him.”
Theogony, lines 607–609
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)
“We know how to tell many believable lies,
But also, when we want to, how to speak the plain truth.”
Theogony, lines 28–29
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)
Stanley Lombardo Quotes about men
Book XX, lines 333–342; Sarpedon to Glaucus.
Translations, Iliad (1997)
Book XXII, lines 287–289; spoken by Achilles.
Translations, Iliad (1997)
Book VI, lines 149–152; Glaucus to Diomedes.
Translations, Iliad (1997)
Stanley Lombardo Quotes
Book VI, lines 183–189; Odysseus to Nausicaa.
Translations, Odyssey (2000)
“Rage:
Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain.”
Book I, opening lines
Translations, Iliad (1997)
“There's no way to get around the mind of Zeus.”
Theogony, line 617
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)
Frag. 31
Translations, Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)
“It was glorious to see—if your heart were iron,
And you could keep from grieving at all the pain.”
Book XIII, lines 355–356
Translations, Iliad (1997)
Canto III, lines 1–3
Translations, Inferno (2008)
Book XXIV, lines 541–543; Priam to Achilles.
Translations, Iliad (1997)
“The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.”
Frag. 72
Translations, Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)