“Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of …" by Cassandra Clare?
Cassandra Clare photo
Cassandra Clare 2041
American author 1973

Related quotes

Allen Ginsberg photo

“The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

Source: The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

Helen Keller photo
Arthur Conan Doyle photo

“The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

~ The Poison Belt”

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Robin Lane Fox photo
Mike Oldfield photo

“Somebody's out to get you
Hiding in the shadows
Poison arrows!
Somebody's out to break you
Hiding in narrows
Poison arrows!”

Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist

Song lyrics, Discovery (1984)

Beilby Porteus photo

“One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero. Princes were privileged
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.”

Beilby Porteus (1731–1809) Bishop of Chester; Bishop of London

Source: Death: A Poetical Essay (1759), Line 154. Compare: "One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands takes a specious name, War’s glorious art, and gives immortal fame", Edward Young, "Love of Fame", Satire vii, line 55.

“Rage:
Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain.”

Stanley Lombardo (1943) Philosopher, Classicist

Book I, opening lines
Translations, Iliad (1997)

“Perry [Como] gave his usual impersonation of a man who has simultaneously been told to say 'Cheese' and shot in the back with a poisoned arrow.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

'Olde Rubbishe'
Essays and reviews, The Crystal Bucket (1982)

Emil M. Cioran photo
Thomas Mann photo

Related topics