Homer — "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and…"
Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out and through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall.
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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' brutal and uncompromising rejection of Hector's plea for a pact in The Iliad.