Based Probably the most badass quote in ancient literature

[WorthlessSlavicShit]

The second part especially, it actually gives me chills.

homer iliad 8

"Hear me, all you gods and all goddesses too,
as I proclaim what the heart inside me urges.
Let no lovely goddess—and no god either—
try to fight against my strict decree.
All submit to it now, so all the more quickly
I can bring this violent business to an end.
And any god I catch, breaking ranks with us,
eager to go and help the Trojans or Achaeans—
back he comes to Olympus, whipped by the lightning,
eternally disgraced. Or I will snatch and hurl him
down to the murk of Tartarus half the world away,
the deepest gulf that yawns beneath the ground,
there where the iron gates and brazen threshold loom,
as far below the House of Death as the sky rides over earth—
then he will know how far my power tops all other gods'

Come, try me, immortals, so all of you can learn.
Hang a great golden cable down from the heavens,
lay hold of it, all you gods, all goddesses too:
you can never drag me down from sky to earth,
not Zeus, the highest, mightiest king of kings,
not even if you worked yourselves to death.
But whenever I'd set my mind to drag you up,
in deadly earnest, I'd hoist you all with ease,
you and the earth, you and the sea, all together,
then loop that golden cable round a horn of Olympus,
bind it fast and leave the whole world dangling in mid-air—
that is how far I tower over the gods, I tower over men."

 

[Vendetta]

that quote is ass, look at this legendary quote

I am crabs legs

 

[Vendetta]

BRUTAL NO REPLYPILL

 

[GeckoBus]

Hang a great golden cable down from the heavens,

DANG NIGGA BEGGIN FOR THE ROPE

 

[WorthlessSlavicShit]

BRUTAL NO REPLYPILL

Ogre for Illiadcels.

DANG NIGGA BEGGIN FOR THE ROPE

 

[Saysitsover]

that quote is ass, look at this legendary quote

I feel connected to it

 

[Bianor]

Was it Diomedes

 

[WorthlessSlavicShit]

Was it Diomedes

Nah, this one is from Zeus, but I know that Diomedes also had a great one when he was going berserk on the Trojans.

 

[mlcurrycel]

I really ought to finish reading the ill-advised, I was confused when I realised it started near the end of the trojan war. Crazy how the story starts over two dudes arguing over a sex slave

 

[droppeddogs]

Achilles glared at him and answered, "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 an 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

 

[WorthlessSlavicShit]

Achilles glared at him and answered, "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 an 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

Nice.

 

[droppeddogs]

I really ought to finish reading the ill-advised, I was confused when I realised it started near the end of the trojan war. Crazy how the story starts over two dudes arguing over a sex slave

Nice.

Did you watch Troy?

 

[WorthlessSlavicShit]

Did you watch Troy?

Yup, a couple of times. An excellent movie, but I won't lie, I'd like it if, despite the realism they were obviously going for, they threw in at least some hints that the myth version is true as well and that the Gods actually exist and such. Maybe like some random lines or weird events and such there.

 

[NatsumeSouseki]

Achilles glared at him and answered, "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 a 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

BASED AS FUCK

 

[NatsumeSouseki]

The second part especially, it actually gives me chills.

homer iliad 8

"Hear me, all you gods and all goddesses too,
as I proclaim what the heart inside me urges.
Let no lovely goddess—and no god either—
try to fight against my strict decree.
All submit to it now, so all the more quickly
I can bring this violent business to an end.
And any god I catch, breaking ranks with us,
eager to go and help the Trojans or Achaeans—
back he comes to Olympus, whipped by the lightning,
eternally disgraced. Or I will snatch and hurl him
down to the murk of Tartarus half the world away,
the deepest gulf that yawns beneath the ground,
there where the iron gates and brazen threshold loom,
as far below the House of Death as the sky rides over earth—
then he will know how far my power tops all other gods'

Come, try me, immortals, so all of you can learn.
Hang a great golden cable down from the heavens,
lay hold of it, all you gods, all goddesses too:
you can never drag me down from sky to earth,
not Zeus, the highest, mightiest king of kings,
not even if you worked yourselves to death.
But whenever I'd set my mind to drag you up,
in deadly earnest, I'd hoist you all with ease,
you and the earth, you and the sea, all together,
then loop that golden cable round a horn of Olympus,
bind it fast and leave the whole world dangling in mid-air—
that is how far I tower over the gods, I tower over men."

Best shit ever written

 

[der_komische]

all women are whores