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Dichter, gilt als Autor von "Ilias" und "Odyssee" und damit als erster Dichter des Abendlandes (Griechenland, 750 - 670 v. Chr.).

Homer · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Geboren am 10.08.-750 in Smyrna/heutige Türkei
Gestorben am 31.12.-670 in Smyrna/heutige Türkei
Sternzeichen: ♌ Löwe

• It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

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• It is no cause for anger that the Trojans and the well-greaved Achaeans have suffered for so long over such a woman: she is wondrously like the immortal goddesses to look upon.

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• It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.

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• It lies in the lap of the gods.

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• Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.

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• Like that of leaves is a generation of men.

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• Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

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• Modesty is of no use to a beggar.

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• No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

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• Of all the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

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• Our business in the field of fight Is not to question, but to prove our might.

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• Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.

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• Reproach is infinite, and knows no end so voluble a weapon is the tongue; wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail for every man has equal strength to rail.

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• Rosy - fingered dawn.

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• Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.

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• Sleep is the twin of death.

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• Smiling through her tears.

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• Son of Atreus, what manner of speech has escaped the barrier of your teeth?

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• Tell me, Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered far and wide after he had sacked Troy's sacred city, and saw the towns of many men and knew their mind.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.

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