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
“I hate saying the same thing over and over again.”
Homér Odyssée
XII. 453–454 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“These things surely lie on the knees of the gods.”
Homér Odyssée
I. 267. Cf. Iliad XVII. 514.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“His cold remains all naked to the sky,
On distant shores unwept, unburied lie.”
Homér Odyssée
XI. 72–73 (tr. Alexander Pope); of Elpenor.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Easily seen is the strength that is given from Zeus to mortals.”
Homér Iliade
XV. 490 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Then Ulysses rejoiced at finding himself again in his own land, and kissed the bounteous soil.”
Homér Odyssée
XIII. 353–354 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Odyssée
XI. 593–598 (tr. William Broome); of Sisyphus.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Odyssée
XII. 351–352 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Iliade
IV. 350–351 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Shameless they give, who give what's not their own.”
Homér Odyssée
XVII. 451–452 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Odyssée
XII. 342–343 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Iliade
XVI (tr. Samuel Butler); Hector to Patroclus.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Homér Iliade
VIII. 306–308 (tr. R. Lattimore); the death of Gorgythion.
Alexander Pope's translation:
: As full-blown poppies, overcharged with rain,
Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain, —
So sinks the youth; his beauteous head, depressed
Beneath his helmet, drops upon his breast.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“But the will of Zeus will always overpower the will of men.”
Homér Iliade
XVI. 688 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Homér Iliade
VI. 232–236 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“The chief indignant grins a ghastly smile.”
Homér Odyssée
XX. 301–302 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Odyssée
XI. 489–492 (tr. Robert Fagles); Achilles' ghost to Odysseus.
Alexander Pope's translation:
: Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear
A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air,
A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread,
Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
With many a weary step, and many a groan,
Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone;
The huge round stone, resulting with a bound,
Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. P. S. Worsley's translation:
: Rather would I, in the sun's warmth divine,
Serve a poor churl who drags his days in grief,
Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Iliade
XXIII. 315–318 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“The Fates have given mortals hearts that can endure.”
Homér Iliade
XXIV. 49 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.”
Homér Odyssée
XVII. 246 (tr. Worsley).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Iliade
XIX. 162–163 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Homér Odyssée
IV. 195–198 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Odyssée
XVII. 320–323 (tr. Worsley).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Lordship for many is no good thing. Let there be one ruler,
one king.”
Homér Iliade
II. 204–205 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Grey-eyed Athene sent them a favourable gale, a fresh West Wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.”
Homér Odyssée
II. 420–421 (tr. S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“From whose lips the streams of words ran sweeter than honey.”
Homér Iliade
I. 249 (tr. Richmond Lattimore); of Nestor.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Homér Iliade
XVI (tr. S. Butler); Patroclus to Hector.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Homér Iliade
IX. 63–64 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
