Homer — "Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are …"
Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
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Greek epic poet traditionally credited with the Iliad and the Odyssey, the foundational works of Western literature.
Closely associated with
Hesiod (near-contemporary Greek poet of Theogony and Works and Days).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Plato, Greek philosopher of the Republic — Republic Book X bans the poets from the ideal city, with Homer as the explicit target — Plato argued Homer's gods set immoral examples and that poetry corrupts moral education. The founding philosophy-versus-poetry quarrel of Western thought.
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Achilles' fatalistic perspective on death in The Iliad, arguing that glory or inaction ultimately leads to the same end.