"And bid your handmaids to do their work. But stories concern men, all men, but especially me, for mine is the power in the house."

"Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, that ruinous wrath which brought the Achaeans countless woes, and hurled down into Hades many strong souls of heroes, and gave their bodies to be a…"

"Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods."

"The heart of man is a strange thing."

"For a man to be good, he must be good for something."