Thursday, March 12, 2026

Homer

Homer (8th and 7th Century BCE Greek poet)

“The same death awaits the man who does much, and the man
who does nothing.”

  • From The Iliad (Book 9, approximately line 320) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

 

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