Homer Quotes
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
Homer. The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore, University of Chicago Press, 1951, p. 61.
As a refugee from Communist Europe where history and memory constantly affect the lives of people for centuries if not millennia, he became a forward thinking individual and wanted to avoid people being mired in the past.
He had followed a guest speaker—a history professor—who was giving the staff a lecture on the history of the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) program of the New Deal which had some similar aspects to the Job Corps, like residential living and work projects. However, the major purpose and justification of the CCC was totally different.
Homer (/ˈhoʊmər/; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) was the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek kingdoms. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The Odyssey focuses on the ten-year journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the fall of Troy. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. Modern scholars consider these accounts legendary.
