E. V. Rieu

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“Look at the lovely clothing you allow to lie about neglected, although you may soon be married and stand in need of beautiful clothes, not only to wear yourself but to provide for your bridegroom’s party. It’s this kind of thing that gives a girl a good name in the town, besides pleasing her father and her mother. Let us go and do some washing together the first thing in the morning.”

“No sooner had the tender Dawn shown her roses in the East, than the Cyclops lit up the fire and milked his splendid ewes, all in their proper older, putting her young to each.”

“Telemachus...was sitting disconsolate among the Suitors, dreaming of how his noble father might come back from out of the blue, drive all these gallants pell-mell from the house, and so regain his royal honours and reign over his own once more.”

“In form they are epic poems; but it will perhaps make their content clearer to the modern reader if I describe the Iliad as a tragedy and the {{w|Odyssey}} as a novel. It is in the Iliad that we hear for the first time the authentic voice of the Tragic Muse, while the Odyssey, with its well-knit plot, its psychological interest and its interplay of character, is the true ancestor of the long line of novels that have followed it. And though it is the first, I am not sure that it is not still the best. Let the new reader decide tor himself.”