Homer
quoted 167 times by 49 works · an author the library holds
also in the atlas: Homer the figure
Most often carried — quoted as a source. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
7 quoted · 9 reported · 151 carried
42 neutral 15 refuted 11 extended 8 endorsedin the voice of Socrates 16 , Homer 3 , Aeschines 2 , Agathon 2 , Alexander 2 , Dio Chrysostom 2 , Niceratus 2 , Pheidias 2 , Seneca 2 , Thucydides 2
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in the voice of Alexander
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 11 neutral 3 refuted 4 extended 5 endorsed 56 citations · 68 passages
oration 1 5 passages anchored here · oration 2 2 passages anchored here · oration 3 3 passages anchored here · oration 4 5 passages anchored here · oration 6 2 passages anchored here · oration 9 2 passages anchored here · oration 11 3 passages anchored here · oration 12 10 passages anchored hereand 22 more chapters
oration 7 · oration 32 5 passages anchored here · oration 33 7 passages anchored here · oration 40 · oration 44 · oration 47 · oration 49 · oration 53 · oration 64 · oration 71 · oration 74 · oration 79 · oration 79 · oration 80 2 passages anchored here · oration 84 · oration 88 · oration 20 · oration 21 2 passages anchored here · oration 23 2 passages anchored here · oration 27 · oration 29 2 passages anchored here · oration 30Homer's teachings on kingship are repeatedly reported as authoritative doctrine attributed by name to him.
For this reason Homer too says that true kings are nurtured of Zeus and like Zeus in counsel, and he declared that Minos, who had the greatest renown for justice, became the companion of Zeus.
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in the voice of Socrates
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Republic Plato 4 neutral 6 refuted 1 extended 16 citations · 20 passages
book 1 · book 2 6 passages anchored here · book 3 · book 4 · book 5 · book 6 · book 7 · book 8 3 passages anchored hereand 1 more chapter
Socrates explicitly names Homer and reports his characterization of Autolycus, corresponding to the Homer citation.
A kind of thief then the just man it seems has turned out to be, and it is likely that you acquired this idea from Homer.
book 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Homer
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 5 neutral 1 refuted 1 endorsed 11 citations · 27 passages
book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 2 5 passages anchored here · book 4 2 passages anchored here · book 5 8 passages anchored here · book 6 10 passages anchored hereThe Margites is explicitly named and tentatively attributed to Homer, with content reported.
"Him the gods made neither a digger nor a ploughman, nor in any other way wise, but he missed every art.
book 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Priam
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Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 6 citations
The passage attributes a specific claim about desire to Homer as a cited authority.
and also sexual intercourse, as Homer says, when young and lusty.
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 refuted 2 endorsed 4 citations · 5 passages
Reports and then explicitly refutes Homer's account of Ganymede being taken to serve Jove.
nor do I listen to Homer, who says Ganymede was carried off by the gods for his beauty, to serve Jove his drink:
book 1 ¶ -
in the voice of disputants in the Homeric trial-scene
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Ancient Law Henry Sumner Maine 2 extended 4 citations · 3 passages
Corresponds to the citation of the Homeric lines.
but it has been thought that, in his Fifth Chapter on “Primitive Society and Ancient Law,” the Author has not done sufficient justice to investigations which appear to show the existence of states of society still more rudimentary than that vividly described in the Homeric lines quoted at page 110, and ordinarily known as the Patriarchal State.
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in the voice of Herodotus
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The Histories Herodotus 2 neutral 1 refuted 4 citations
Direct citation_quote pairing with the Homer citation above.
and I suppose that Homer or some older poet invented this name and brought it into his poetry.
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in the voice of Seneca
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Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 2 neutral 4 citations
Matches the citation of Homer as the traced source of a borrowed poetic phrase
" Ennius, he says, filched this from Homer, and Virgil from Ennius.
letter 108 ¶ -
in the voice of Clement
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 2 neutral 3 citations · 8 passages
Explicit attribution: "all that Homer treats of as theology."
There is a sixth, an introductory, manner of deception that produces gods, according to which they reckon the twelve gods — of whom Hesiod sings his own theogony, and all that Homer treats of as theology.
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 2 neutral 3 citations · 4 passages
Represents the passage's invocation of Homer's Unspecified epic (comparative reference) as cited authority.
Plato, in his ninth book on laws, very properly makes the same distinction, as Homer had done before him.
ch. 11 ¶ -
in the voice of Agathon
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Symposium Plato 3 citations
Corresponds to the citation of Homer's account of Ephialtes and Otus.
and the same story is told of them as Homer relates of Ephialtes and Otus, that scheming to assault the gods in fight they essayed to mount high heaven.
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in the voice of Thucydides
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History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 1 neutral 3 citations · 4 passages
Matches the citation of Homer, anchoring the specific instances where his poems are quoted or cited as evidence.
as Homer has also shown, if he is sufficient authority for any one, and also, in [his account of] the transmission of the sceptre, he has mentioned that he
book 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Niceratus
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Symposium Xenophon 1 neutral 3 citations · 11 passages
This is an explicit invocation and quotation of Homeric authority.
do you understand how to play the king, too, knowing, as you do, that Homer praised Agamemnon for being both goodly king and spearman strong?
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in the voice of Aeschines
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Against Ctesiphon Aeschines 2 citations · 3 passages
The citation to Homer receives a matching quote event.
Homer has sung of his fame, and has said that of all the mailed chieftains
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in the voice of Pisthetaerus
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Birds Aristophanes 2 citations · 3 passages
This is the quote event matching the Homer citation, invoked to support the claim that gods can be winged.
First of all, Victory flies with golden wings, Eros is undoubtedly winged too, and Iris is compared by Homer to a timorous dove.
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in the voice of Libanius
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Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 extended 2 citations
Libanius explicitly names Homer's 'madness' as the passage he wants explained.
Often, when I was with you at headquarters, I wished, through your wisdom, to enter into the depth of Homer's madness.
letter 345 ¶ -
in the voice of Augustine
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On Fate Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 extended 2 citations · 1 passage
A citation to Homer's verses requires a corresponding citation_quote event; Augustine explicitly reports these verses as lending support to the discussed opinion.
Those verses of Homer also lend support to this opinion, which Cicero rendered into Latin:
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 1 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages
Corresponds to the citation of Homer's poems as evidence for early Greek kingship.
The Homeric King is chiefly busy with fighting.
ch. 7 ¶ -
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 1 neutral 2 citations
Homer's material is reported as the basis of Pliny's proof.
Ita commercia victus gratia inventa est Homero Plinius probat.
ch. 12 ¶ -
in the voice of Helen
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Helen Isocrates 2 citations · 1 passage
Matches the citation of Homer's poem named in p-95f1f3.
And some of the Homeridae also relate that Helen appeared to Homer by night and commanded him to compose a poem on those who went on the expedition to Troy, since she wished to make their death more to be envied than the life of the rest of mankind;
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in the voice of Sophists attacking Isocrates
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Panathenaicus Isocrates 1 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages
Homer's poetry is invoked as a textual authority through public recitation and discussion.
For some of my friends met me and related to me how, as they were sitting together in the Lyceum, three or four of the sophists of no repute— men who claim to know everything and are prompt to show their presence everywhere—were discussing the poets, especially the poetry of Hesiod and Homer, saying nothing original about them, but merely chanting their verses and repeating from memory the clevere …
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in the voice of Socrates
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Apology Plato 2 citations
The Iliadic scene is the authoritative text cited by Socrates to justify his own conduct.
Are you then not ashamed, Socrates, of having followed such a pursuit, that you are now in danger of being put to death as a result?
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Ad Nationes Tertullian 1 refuted 2 citations
Corresponds to the citation of Homer's poetry as authoritative evidence of pagan irreverence.
We still remember Homer.
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De Anima Tertullian 1 neutral 1 refuted 2 citations
Homer's image of the two gates of dreams is cited as a poetic authority on the mixed truth of dreams.
Homer divided two gates for dreams, the horn one of truth, the ivory one of falsehood.
de anima ¶ -
in the voice of Unjust Cause
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Clouds Aristophanes 1 citation
Unjust Cause explicitly cites Homer's authority regarding Nestor to justify the value of public speech.
For if it had been bad, Homer would never have been for representing Nestor as an orator;
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Constitution of the Athenians Aristotle 1 citation
The passage explicitly invokes Homer's catalogue of ships as a textual authority corroborating the claim about Theseus's populism.
That he was the first to incline toward the masses, as Aristotle says, and gave up sole rule, Homer too seems to bear witness, in the catalogue of ships naming the Athenians alone "the people.
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De legendis gentilium libris Basil of Caesarea 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage reports what 'Homer said' about Margites while explicitly doubting the attribution.
Then ease would be worth much in life, and Sardanapalus would be borne to first place of all in happiness, or Margites too, if you like, whom Homer said was neither ploughman nor digger nor any other thing useful for life—if indeed these verses are Homer's.
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On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 extended 1 citation
The Sirens' address to Ulysses is presented as Cicero's own translation of Homer, quoted directly within the passage.
So that to me indeed Homer seems to have seen something of this kind in those things which he feigned about the songs of the Sirens.
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in the voice of Scipio
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On the Commonwealth Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
This is the quote event corresponding to the citation of Homer.
Whether these things were established by the leaders of commonwealths for the use of life—that a single king should be thought to be in heaven, who by his nod, as Homer says, would turn all Olympus, and be held both king and father of all—great is the authority and many are the witnesses, if indeed it is granted that all are to be called many, that the nations have so agreed, plainly by the decree …
book 1 ¶ -
On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
Homer's practice of attaching gods to heroes is cited as textual/poetic authority for divine care of individuals
This reasoning impelled the poets, and most of all Homer, to attach to the chief of the heroes — Ulysses, Diomedes, Agamemnon, Achilles — certain gods as companions of their crises and dangers.
book 2 ¶ -
in the voice of the speaker
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The Erotic Essay Demosthenes 1 citation
Matches the Homer citation; the passage explicitly reports what Homer's poetry depicts as supporting evidence.
The best evidence for this may be found in the poetry of Homer, in which he represents the Greeks and barbarians warring against one another with this equipment.
the erotic essay ¶ -
The Funeral Speech Demosthenes 1 citation
Reports the content the speaker attributes to Homer's epics regarding Acamas, matching the Homer citation.
The Acamantidae did not fail to recall the epics in which Homer says that Acamas sailed for Troy for the sake of his mother Aethra.
the funeral speech ¶ -
Cyclops Euripides 1 extended 1 citation · 3 passages
The play as a whole is a dramatic extension of the Homeric Cyclops episode; the Noman trick and oracle directly invoke Homeric tradition
Noman.
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 citation
Poetic authority cited for comparison.
’ ‘This interpretation,’ I then added, ‘would be less plausible than it is, were it not that, by a surprising coincidence, the ceremony described by Gaius as the imperative course of proceeding in a Legis Actio is substantially the same with one of the two subjects which the God Hephæstus is described by Homer as moulding into the First Compartment of the Shield of Achilles.
ch. 10 ¶ -
in the voice of Fishermen
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Epigrams Homer 1 neutral 1 citation
The paragraph labels the fishermen as speakers answering Homer.
FISHERMEN:
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Against the Sophists Isocrates 1 citation
This quote event corresponds to the direct citation of Homer as an authority on the limits of foreknowledge.
For I think it is manifest to all that foreknowledge of future events is not vouchsafed to our human nature, but that we are so far removed from this prescience that Homer, who has been conceded the highest reputation for wisdom, has pictured even the gods as at times debating among themselves about the future —not that he knew their minds but that he desired to show us that for mankind this power …
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Panegyricus Isocrates 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation of Homer's poetry, reported as an honored authority invoked to explain and reinforce Greek enmity toward barbarians.
Moreover, I think that even the poetry of Homer has won a greater renown because he has nobly glorified the men who fought against the barbarians, and that on this account our ancestors determined to give his art a place of honor in our musical contests and in the education of our youth, in order that we, hearing his verses over and over again, may learn by heart the enmity which stands from of ol …
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in the voice of Isocrates
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To Nicocles Isocrates 1 citation · 2 passages
This quote event corresponds to the citation of Homer as poetic authority.
Wherefore we may well admire the poet Homer and the first inventors of tragedy, seeing that they, with true insight into human nature, have embodied both kinds of pleasure in their poetry;
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The Law of Intellectual Property Lysander Spooner 1 neutral 1 citation
Matches the citation of Homer's poems as an invoked literary work.
Who can suppose that the poems of Homer, Shakespeare, and Milton, or the orations of Demosthenes, Cicero, and Burke, would ever have seen the light, had not Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, Demosthenes, Cicero and Burke themselves existed?
ch. 14 ¶ -
Phaedo Plato 1 citation · 2 passages
This is the quote event corresponding to the citation of Homer's verse about Tartarus.
this is the one which Homer means when he says:
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Consolation to Polybius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 citation
Homer's works are invoked as a literary authority Polybius should return to for consolation and study.
then let them claim you as their high priest and worshipper;
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On Benefits Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 neutral 1 citation
Homer's divergent treatment of the Graces is directly cited and contrasted with Hesiod's account
in Hesiod she is one of the Graces, in Homer one of the Muses.
book 1 ¶ -
The Genius of the Common Law Sir Frederick Pollock 1 neutral 1 citation
Homer's depiction of the Greeks is directly invoked as a comparative historical source.
The Greeks described by Homer, for example, are much nearer to the Germanic ideal than Plato’s contemporaries;
ch. 1 ¶ -
The Law of Torts Sir Frederick Pollock 1 citation
This is the citation_quote corresponding to the Homer citation; Homer is named and invoked as authority in this paragraph.
If anyone desires to be satisfied of this, he may open Homer or the Psalter at random.
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Adversus Valentinianos Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation entry for Homer
First of all, Ennius, the Roman poet, spoke simply of "the great dining-halls of heaven," by the name of an elevated situation, or because he had read in Homer of Jupiter banqueting there.
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De Corona Tertullian 1 refuted 1 citation
Homer is explicitly cited via Claudius as a poetic source, constituting a citation quote event.
Claudius will indeed allege beforehand that even heaven is crowned with stars in the verses of Homer—certainly by God, certainly for man;
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De Pallio Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation of the Homeric epic tradition.
Our own surveyed sphere, at any rate — as is clear even to closed, nay, wholly Homeric eyes — is throughout of changing form.
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in the voice of Socrates
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Apology Xenophon 1 citation
Socrates explicitly cites Homer as precedent for prophetic speech at death.
But, he is reported to have added, Homer has attributed to some of his heroes at the moment of dissolution the power to foresee the future;
apology ¶ -
in the voice of Socrates
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Memorabilia Xenophon 1 citation
Every citation requires a matching citation_quote, and Homer is explicitly cited.
He said that Homer gave Odysseus the credit of being a safe speaker because he had a way of leading the discussion from one acknowledged truth to another.
book 4 ¶
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- the passage in this text that does the citing
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- beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.