Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
HomerCome, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!
HomerYea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endureโฆ For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.
Homer...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.
Homer