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Omero è il nome con cui è storicamente identificato il noto poeta greco autore dell'Iliade e dell'Odissea, i due massimi poemi epici della letteratura greca. Nell'antichità gli erano state attribuite anche altre opere: il poemetto giocoso Batracomiomachia, i cosiddetti Inni omerici, il poemetto Margite e vari poemi del Ciclo epico.

Già dubbie le attribuzioni della sua opera presso gli antichi, a partire dalla seconda metà del Seicento si iniziò a mettere in discussione l'esistenza stessa del poeta, dando inizio alla cosiddetta "questione omerica".

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Omero frasi celebri

“Come lieta appare la terra a chi nuota
se Poseidone infranta gli abbia la nave
urtata dal vento e dall'onde furiose, e pochi
sfuggirono al mare nuotando e toccaron la riva,
e molta e densa salsedine incrosta la pelle,
e scampati da morte a terra vengon allegri:
similmente apparve alla donna caro il marito.”

Omero Odissea

Odissea

“Cresceva, dentro al cortile, un tronco d’olivo dalle foglie sottili, rigoglioso, fiorente, largo come una colonna. Intorno a questo io eressi il talamo, che feci con pietre fittamente connesse e ricoprii con il tetto ben fatto; e la porta applicai, solida e salda. Poi recisi la chioma dell’olivo dalle foglie sottili, il tronco sgrossai dalla radice, lo piallai tutt’intorno con l’ascia di bronzo, abilmente, lo livellai a filo di squadra e ricavai una base che lavorai tutta a traforo. Cominciando da questa levigavo anche il letto, ornandolo d’oro, d’argento, d’avorio.”

Omero Odissea

Odissea

“[Sulle citazioni] Parole alate.”

Omero

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli

“Afrodita, amante de la risa”

Omero

La Ilíada y La Odisea

“Tutti gli uomini hanno bisogno degli dèi.”

Omero

citato in AA.VV., Il libro delle religioni, traduzione di Anna Carbone, Gribaudo, 2017, p. 12. ISBN 9788858015810

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“Anche uno sciocco impara qualcosa quando lo colpisce.”

Omero

Omero: Frasi in inglese

“Alike the idlers and the active die.”

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Homér Iliad

IX. 320 (tr. Lord Derby).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“The day will come when sacred Troy must die,
Priam must die and all his people with him,
Priam who hurls the strong ash spear!”

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Homér Iliad

IV. 164–165 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Agamemnon.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.”

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Homér Iliad

V. 440–442 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“But one can't go without his sleep forever.
The immortals give each thing its proper place
in our mortal lives throughout the good green earth.”

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Homér Odissea

XIX. 592–594 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Let us put our griefs to rest in our own hearts…
What good's to be won from tears that chill the spirit?
So the immortals spun our lives that we, we wretched men
live on to bear such torments—the gods live free of sorrows.”

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Homér Iliad

XXIV. 522–526 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“As when in harp and song adept, a bard
Unlab'ring strains the chord to a new lyre.”

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Homér Odissea

XXI. 406–407 (tr. William Cowper).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Prayers are Jove's daughters, of celestial race,
Lame are their feet, and wrinkled is their face;
With humble mien, and with dejected eyes,
Constant they follow where Injustice flies.”

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Homér Iliad

IX. 498–500 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Oh but if Zeus's lightning blinded us those days,
it's Zeus who drives us, hurls us on today!”

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Homér Iliad

XV. 724–725 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Bear up, old heart! You've borne worse, far worse…”

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Homér Odissea

XX. 18 (tr. Robert Fagles).
: Bear up, my soul, a little longer yet;
A little longer to thy purpose cling!
Origine: Odyssey (c. 725 BC), P. S. Worsley's translation:

“They remembered bed and took the gift of sleep.”

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Homér Odissea

XVI. 481 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs.”

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Homér Iliad

XI. 514–515 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.”

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Homér Iliad

I. 218 (tr. Richmond Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Let them be friends,
devoted as in the old days. Let peace and wealth
come cresting through the land.”

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Homér Odissea

XXIV. 485–486 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.”

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Homér Iliad

XXII. 262–263 (tr. Samuel Butler); Achilles to Hector.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Shaker of the earth, you would have me be as one without prudence
if I am to fight even you for the sake of insignificant
mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm
with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again
fade away and are dead.”

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Homér Iliad

XXI. 462–466 (tr. R. Lattimore); Apollo to Poseidon.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“As stars in the night sky glittering
round the moon's brilliance blaze in all their glory
when the air falls to a sudden, windless calm…
all the lookout peaks stand out and the jutting cliffs
and the steep ravines and down from the high heavens bursts
the boundless, bright air and all the stars shine clear
and the shepherd's heart exults.”

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Homér Iliad

VIII. 551–555 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Alexander Pope's translation:
: As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night,
O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light,
When not a breath disturbs the deep serene,
And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene;
Around her throne the vivid planets roll,
And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole,
O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed,
And tip with silver every mountain's head;
Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise,
A flood of glory bursts from all the skies.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Locking spear by spear, shield against shield at the base, so buckler
leaned on buckler, helmet on helmet, man against man.”

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Homér Iliad

XIII, 130–131 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once.”

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Homér Iliad

XXIV. 543 (tr. R. Lattimore); Achilles to Priam.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“But a man's life breath cannot come back again—
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.”

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Homér Iliad

IX. 408–409 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Behold on wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!
Dwells there a god on all the Olympian brow
More swift than Mars, and more than Vulcan slow?
Yet Vulcan conquers, and the god of arms
Must pay the penalty for lawless charms.”

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Homér Odissea

VIII. 329–331 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Well then, what shall I go through first,
what shall I save for last?”

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Homér Odissea

IX. 14 (tr. Robert Fagles)
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Both gods knotted the rope of strife and leveling war,
strangling both sides at once by stretching the mighty cable,
never broken, never slipped, that snapped the knees of thousands.”

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Homér Iliad

XIII. 358–360 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Nothing more shameless is than Appetite,
Who still, whatever anguish load our breast,
Makes us remember in our own despite
Both food and drink.”

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Homér Odissea

VII. 216–218 (tr. P. S. Worsley).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“For a guest remembers all his days the hospitable man who showed him kindness.”

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Homér Odissea

XV. 54–55 (tr. G. H. Palmer).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“No man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle.”

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Homér Iliad

V. 407–409 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Along the shore of the loud-roaring sea.”

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Homér Iliad

I. 34.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Then give him into the charge of swift messengers to carry him,
of Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers, and these two shall lay him
down presently within the rich countryside of broad Lykia.”

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Homér Iliad

XVI. 671–673 (tr. R. Lattimore). Cf. Virgil, Aeneid, VI.278.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“No more entreating of me, you dog, by knees or parents.”

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Homér Iliad

XXII. 345 (tr. R. Lattimore); Achilles to Hector.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Not iron, trust me,
the heart within my breast. I am all compassion.”

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Homér Odissea

V. 190–191 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

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