Homér Berühmte Zitate
„Es mehrt unendliche Trauer das Elend.“
Odyssee, 18. Gesang, 174 / Eurynome und 19. Gesang, 120 / Odysseus
Original griech.: "κάκιον πενθήμεναι ἄκριτον αἰεί."
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr), Odyssee (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
„Siehe, kein Wesen ist so eitel und unbeständig wie der Mensch.“
Odyssee, 18. Gesang, 130 / Odysseus
Original griech.: "οὐδὲν ἀκιδνότερον γαῖα τρέφει ἀνθρώποιο"
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr), Odyssee (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
Zitate über Menschen von Homér
„Erduldenden Mut verlieh den Menschen das Schicksal.“
Ilias, 24. Gesang, 49
Original griech.: "τλητὸν γὰρ Μοῖραι θυμὸν θέσαν ἀνθρώποισιν."
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
„Aber der Mensch entwirft, und Zeus vollendet es anders.“
Ilias, 18. Gesang, 328 / Achilles
Original griech.: "ἀλλ' οὐ Ζεὺς ἄνδρεσσι νοήματα πάντα τελευτᾷ·"
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
„Ehre den älteren Menschen verleihn die unsterblichen Götter.“
Ilias, 23. Gesang, 788 / Antilochos
Original griech.: "ἀθάνατοι τιμῶσι παλαιοτέρους ἀνθρώπους."
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Homér Zitate und Sprüche
„Dulde, mein Herz! Du hast noch härtere Kränkung erduldet.“
Odyssee, 20. Gesang, 18 / Odysseus
Original griech.: "τέτλαθι δή, κραδίη· καὶ κύντερον ἄλλο ποτ' ἔτλης"
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr), Odyssee (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
„Besser, wer fliehend entrann der Gefahr, als wen sie ereilet!“
Ilias, 14. Gesang, 81 / Agamemnon
Original griech.: "βέλτερον ὃς φεύγων προφύγῃ κακὸν ἠὲ ἁλώῃ·"
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
„Denn gerne gedenkt ja ein Mann der Trübsal.“
Odyssee, 15. Gesang, 400 / Eumäus
Original griech.: "καὶ ἄλγεσι τέρπεται ἀνήρ"
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr), Odyssee (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
„Denn im Unglück altern die armen Sterblichen frühe.“
Odyssee, 19. Gesang, 360 / Penelope
Original griech.: "αἶψα γὰρ ἐν κακότητι βροτοὶ καταγηράσκουσιν."
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr), Odyssee (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
„Ein Wahrzeichen nur gilt: das Vaterland zu erretten!“
Ilias, 12. Gesang, 243 / Hektor
Original griech.: "εἷς οἰωνὸς ἄριστος ἀμύνεσθαι περὶ πάτρης."
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
„Immer der Erste zu sein und voranzustreben vor andern.“
Ilias, 6. Gesang, 208 / Glaukos
Original griech.: "αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων"
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
Ilias, 2. Gesang, 204
Original griech.: "εἷς κοίρανος ἔστω·"
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
The Iliad
Odyssee, 24. Gesang, 337-341 / Odysseus
Original griech.: "ἐγὼ δ᾽ ᾔτεον σε ἕκαστα παιδνὸς ἐών, κατὰ κῆπον ἐπισπόμενος· διὰ δ᾽ αὐτῶν ἱκνεύμεσθα, σὺ δ᾽ ὠνόμασας καὶ ἔειπες ἕκαστα. ὄγχνας μοι δῶκας τρισκαίδεκα καὶ δέκα μηλέας, συκέας τεσσαράκοντ᾽·"
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr), Odyssee (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
„Doch wir horchen allein dem Gerücht und wissen durchaus nichts.“
Ilias, 2. Gesang, 486
Original griech.: "ἡμεῖς δὲ κλέος οἶον ἀκούομεν οὐδέ τι ἴδμεν·"
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
„Ein jeder, dem gut und bieder das Herz ist, liebt sein Weib und pflegt es mit Zärtlichkeit.“
Ilias, 9. Gesang, 341f / Achilles
Original griech.: "ἐπεὶ ὅς τις ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸς καὶ ἐχέφρων τὴν αὐτοῦ φιλέει καὶ κήδεται."
Ilias (8./7. Jh. v.Chr)
The Iliad
The Iliad
Homér: Zitate auf Englisch
“I hate saying the same thing over and over again.”
XII. 453–454 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“These things surely lie on the knees of the gods.”
I. 267. Cf. Iliad XVII. 514.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“His cold remains all naked to the sky,
On distant shores unwept, unburied lie.”
XI. 72–73 (tr. Alexander Pope); of Elpenor.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Easily seen is the strength that is given from Zeus to mortals.”
XV. 490 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Then Ulysses rejoiced at finding himself again in his own land, and kissed the bounteous soil.”
XIII. 353–354 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Shameless they give, who give what's not their own.”
XVII. 451–452 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
VIII. 306–308 (tr. R. Lattimore); the death of Gorgythion.
Alexander Pope's translation:
: As full-blown poppies, overcharged with rain,
Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain, —
So sinks the youth; his beauteous head, depressed
Beneath his helmet, drops upon his breast.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“But the will of Zeus will always overpower the will of men.”
XVI. 688 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“The chief indignant grins a ghastly smile.”
XX. 301–302 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
XI. 489–492 (tr. Robert Fagles); Achilles' ghost to Odysseus.
Alexander Pope's translation:
: Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear
A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air,
A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread,
Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
With many a weary step, and many a groan,
Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone;
The huge round stone, resulting with a bound,
Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. P. S. Worsley's translation:
: Rather would I, in the sun's warmth divine,
Serve a poor churl who drags his days in grief,
Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“The Fates have given mortals hearts that can endure.”
XXIV. 49 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Worthless is as worthless does.”
VIII. 351 (tr. Martin Hammond).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.”
XVII. 246 (tr. Worsley).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Lordship for many is no good thing. Let there be one ruler,
one king.”
II. 204–205 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Grey-eyed Athene sent them a favourable gale, a fresh West Wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.”
II. 420–421 (tr. S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“From whose lips the streams of words ran sweeter than honey.”
I. 249 (tr. Richmond Lattimore); of Nestor.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)