Nausicaa la Phéacienne parlant de son peuple à Ulysse.
L'Odyssée
Homère citations célèbres
Priam venu réclamer le corps de son fils Hector à Achille.
L'Iliade
Ulysse s'exhortant lui-même au calme en voyant les exactions des prétendants de Pénélope.
L'Odyssée
Invocation à la Muse aux premiers vers de l'épopée.
L'Iliade
Le guerrier troyen Glaucos parlant à l'Achéen Diomède sur le champ de bataille de Troie.
L'Iliade
La nuit des retrouvailles entre Ulysse et Pénélope.
L'Odyssée
Homère: Citations en anglais
“We two have secret signs,
known to us both but hidden from the world.”
Homér Odyssée
XXIII. 109–110 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“I'll fling a spear myself and leave the rest to Zeus.”
Homér Iliade
XVII. 515 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.”
Homér Odyssée
I. 32–34 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Who, on his own,
has ever really known who gave him life?”
Homér Odyssée
I. 216 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“He in the turning dust lay
mightily in his might, his horsemanship all forgotten.”
Homér Iliade
XVI. 775–776 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“He will tell you no lies, for he is an excellent person.”
Homér Odyssée
III. 328 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate.”
Homér Iliade
XVI. 630 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“The gods don't hand out all their gifts at once,
not build and brains and flowing speech to all.”
Homér Odyssée
VIII. 167–168 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Odyssée
XVI. 190–191 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Odyssée
VIII. 221–222 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Odyssée
I. 58–59 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“If indeed there be a god in heaven.”
Homér Odyssée
XVII. 484 (tr. S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Bird-signs!
Fight for your country—that is the best, the only omen!”
Homér Iliade
XII. 243 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Homér Iliade
XII. 322–328 (tr. R. Lattimore); Sarpedon to Glaukos.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Hardship can age a person overnight.”
Homér Odyssée
XIX. 360 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“It's light work for the gods who rule the skies
to exalt a mortal man or bring him low.”
Homér Odyssée
XVI. 211–212 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“There she encountered Sleep, the brother of Death.”
Homér Iliade
XIV. 231 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Homér Odyssée
VI. 180–185 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald); Odysseus to Nausicaa.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Odyssée
I. 1–5 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Iliade
VI. 142–143 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Homér Odyssée
Δοιαὶ γάρ τε πύλαι ἀμενηνῶν εἰσὶν ὀνείρων·
αἱ μὲν γὰρ κεράεσσι τετεύχαται, αἱ δ' ἐλέφαντι.
οἵ ῥ' ἐλεφαίρονται, ἔπε' ἀκράαντα φέροντες·
οἳ δὲ διὰ ξεστῶν κεράων ἔλθωσι θύραζε,
οἵ ῥ' ἔτυμα κραίνουσι, βροτῶν ὅτε κέν τις ἴδηται.
XIX. 563–568 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Penelope.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“The blessed gods have no love for crime.
They honor justice, honor the decent acts of men.”
Homér Odyssée
XIV. 83–84 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Odyssée
XIII. 79–80 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“The recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all.”
Homér Odyssée
I. 7 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“A deep sleep took hold upon him and eased the burden of his sorrows.”
Homér Odyssée
XXIII. 343–344 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“When a Man's exhausted, wine will build his strength.”
Homér Iliade
VI. 261 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Friends, we're hardly strangers at meeting danger.”
Homér Odyssée
XII. 209 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
