The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |            not ‘of wood or stone,’ as Homer says; and I have a family,
  2 Text |            and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let


Charmides
    Part
  3 Intro|            sophistical application of Homer: for temperance is good
  4 Intro|            good as well as noble, and Homer has declared that ‘modesty
  5 Intro| interpretations or rather parodies of Homer or Hesiod, which are eminently
  6 Text |           surely you would agree with Homer when he says,~‘Modesty is


Cratylus
    Part
  7 Intro|             When he is arguing out of Homer, about the names of Hector’
  8 Intro|          admixture of quotations from Homer, and the spurious dialectic
  9 Intro|              then the interpreters of Homer, oi palaioi Omerikoi (compare
 10 Intro|           poets, and in particular of Homer, who distinguishes the names
 11 Intro|              which may be learnt from Homer. Does he not say that Hector’
 12 Intro|           wise, the men or the women? Homer evidently agreed with the
 13 Intro|           allegorical interpreters of Homer, who make the name equivalent
 14 Intro|                look fore and aft,’ as Homer remarks. Does not Cratylus
 15 Intro|           into the hearts of nations, Homer, Shakespear, Dante, the
 16 Intro|             degrees the perfection of Homer and Plato. Yet we are far
 17 Intro|           less majestic than those of Homer, Virgil, or Dante.~One of
 18 Text |        despise him, you must learn of Homer and the poets.~HERMOGENES:
 19 Text |            HERMOGENES: And where does Homer say anything about names,
 20 Text |      observations of the same kind in Homer and other poets. Now, I
 21 Text |              ask you, then, which did Homer think the more correct of
 22 Text |                the men.~SOCRATES: And Homer, as you know, says that
 23 Text |                SOCRATES: And must not Homer have imagined the Trojans
 24 Text |             his father was saving, as Homer observes.~HERMOGENES: I
 25 Text |              tell me, friend, did not Homer himself also give Hector
 26 Text |          indication of the opinion of Homer about the correctness of
 27 Text |         Cronos and Rhea, and of which Homer also spoke.~HERMOGENES:
 28 Text |             Compare the line in which Homer, and, as I believe, Hesiod
 29 Text |            the modern interpreters of Homer may, I think, assist in
 30 Text |                 as in the language of Homer (Od.) gegaasi means gegennesthai.~
 31 Text |            the words of the aforesaid Homer. And now let me see; where


Crito
    Part
 32 Intro|            Socrates and the parody of Homer. The personification of
 33 Text |               Phthia shalt thou go.’ (Homer, Il.)~CRITO: What a singular


Euthyphro
    Part
 34 Intro|         philosophy was teaching, that Homer and Hesiod, if not banished


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 35 Pre  |              satirical reasoning upon Homer, in the reductio ad absurdum
 36 Text |           from many people, including Homer; for you have heard of the


Gorgias
    Part
 37 Intro|            Thersites, are supposed by Homer to be undergoing everlasting
 38 Intro|               sceptre, as Odysseus in Homer saw him~‘Wielding a sceptre
 39 Intro|            appeal of the authority of Homer, who says that Odysseus
 40 Intro|              and phrases taken out of Homer, and with other fragments
 41 Text |               not just men gentle, as Homer says?—or are you of another
 42 Text |              mean to speak the truth. Homer tells us (Il.), how Zeus
 43 Text |              they have the power. And Homer witnesses to the truth of
 44 Text |            looking on, as Odysseus in Homer declares that he saw him:~‘


Ion
    Part
 45 Intro|              about the exact words of Homer, but very idiotic themselves.’ (
 46 Intro|          company of good poets and of Homer, who is the prince of them.
 47 Intro|            his skill is restricted to Homer, and that he knows nothing
 48 Intro|             up and is wide awake when Homer is being recited, but is
 49 Intro|           reason why some poets, like Homer, are restricted to a single
 50 Intro|            hear his embellishments of Homer. Socrates asks whether he
 51 Intro|              well about everything in Homer. ‘Yes, indeed he can.’ ‘
 52 Intro|             can interpret anything in Homer. But, rejoins Socrates,
 53 Intro|                rejoins Socrates, when Homer speaks of the arts, as for
 54 Intro|          which is derived by him from Homer, just as the sophist professes
 55 Intro|              to his embellishments of Homer, in which he declares himself
 56 Text |              poets; and especially of Homer, who is the best and most
 57 Text |            myself able to speak about Homer better than any man; and
 58 Text |               had as good ideas about Homer as I have, or as many.~SOCRATES:
 59 Text |              how exquisitely I render Homer. I think that the Homeridae
 60 Text |         Hesiod and Archilochus, or to Homer only?~ION: To Homer only;
 61 Text |             or to Homer only?~ION: To Homer only; he is in himself quite
 62 Text |          there any things about which Homer and Hesiod agree?~ION: Yes;
 63 Text |             you interpret better what Homer says, or what Hesiod says,
 64 Text |             divination, of which both Homer and Hesiod have something
 65 Text |              to have this skill about Homer only, and not about Hesiod
 66 Text |             the other poets? Does not Homer speak of the same themes
 67 Text |             these the themes of which Homer sings?~ION: Very true, Socrates.~
 68 Text |            but not in the same way as Homer.~SOCRATES: What, in a worse
 69 Text |              far worse.~SOCRATES: And Homer in a better way?~ION: He
 70 Text |            SOCRATES: And you say that Homer and the other poets, such
 71 Text |             Ion is equally skilled in Homer and in other poets, since
 72 Text |              any other poet; but when Homer is mentioned, I wake up
 73 Text |              to see that you speak of Homer without any art or knowledge.
 74 Text |            and have more to say about Homer than any other man. But
 75 Text |            speaking excellently about Homer is not an art, but, as I
 76 Text |          yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them
 77 Text |             are possessed and held by Homer. Of whom, Ion, you are one,
 78 Text |             one, and are possessed by Homer; and when any one repeats
 79 Text |               one recites a strain of Homer you wake up in a moment,
 80 Text |             by art or knowledge about Homer do you say what you say,
 81 Text |            you, Ion, when the name of Homer is mentioned have plenty
 82 Text |             answer is that you praise Homer not by art but by divine
 83 Text |             persuade me that I praise Homer only when I am mad and possessed;
 84 Text |               to ask. On what part of Homer do you speak well?—not surely
 85 Text |            Surely not about things in Homer of which you have no knowledge?~
 86 Text |             ION: And what is there in Homer of which I have no knowledge?~
 87 Text |               SOCRATES: Why, does not Homer speak in many passages about
 88 Text |          which you were reciting from Homer, you or the charioteer?~
 89 Text |          medicine.~SOCRATES: And when Homer says,~‘And she descended
 90 Text |          assign different passages in Homer to their corresponding arts,
 91 Text |           fisherman, do you, who know Homer so much better than I do,
 92 Text |             To be sure, Socrates; and Homer was my master.~SOCRATES:
 93 Text |      knowledge you are able to praise Homer, you do not deal fairly
 94 Text |            many glorious things about Homer, and promises that you would
 95 Text |        promise that you would exhibit Homer, you are not dealing fairly
 96 Text |           these beautiful words about Homer unconsciously under his
 97 Text |             to you in your praises of Homer inspiration, and not art.~


Laches
    Part
 98 Intro|               the manner of Aeneas in Homer; or as the heavy-armed Spartans
 99 Text |              well as pursuing; and as Homer says in praise of the horses
100 Text |              Yes, Socrates, and there Homer is right: for he was speaking
101 Text |              to them the authority of Homer, who says, that~‘Modesty


Laws
    Book
102 1    |            you, Cleinias, believe, as Homer tells, that every ninth
103 2    |            exhibitions: one man, like Homer, will exhibit a rhapsody,
104 3    |       government which is declared by Homer to have prevailed among
105 3    |                The form which in fact Homer indicates as following the
106 4    |               of such a practice from Homer, by whom Odysseus is introduced,
107 9    |             And is it disgraceful for Homer and Tyrtaeus and other poets


Lysis
    Part
108 Intro|              God brings like to like (Homer), and to philosophers (Empedocles),


Menexenus
    Part
109 Pre  |              satirical reasoning upon Homer, in the reductio ad absurdum


Meno
    Part
110 Text |              be among the living what Homer says that Tiresias was among


Phaedo
    Part
111 Intro|            affections of the body, as Homer describes Odysseus ‘rebuking
112 Intro|              are we not contradicting Homer and ourselves in affirming
113 Intro|       misology;’ or his references to Homer; or the playful smile with
114 Text |              which is not herself, as Homer in the Odyssee represents
115 Text |           endured!’~Do you think that Homer wrote this under the idea
116 Text |          should contradict the divine Homer, and contradict ourselves.~
117 Text |              this is that chasm which Homer describes in the words,—~‘


Phaedrus
    Part
118 Intro|              Metrodorus, had found in Homer and mythology hidden meanings.
119 Intro|          famous men and women such as Homer and Hesiod, Anacreon and
120 Intro|           hundred years if we exclude Homer, the genius of Hellas had
121 Text |             which was devised, not by Homer, for he never had the wit
122 Text |            than either Stesichorus or Homer, in that I am going to make
123 Text |            the apocryphal writings of Homer in which the name occurs.
124 Text |              composers of speeches—to Homer and other writers of poems,


Philebus
    Part
125 Text |               them all flow into what Homer poetically terms ‘a meeting


Protagoras
    Part
126 Text |             his beard? Are you not of Homer’s opinion, who says~‘Youth
127 Text |               is a sculptor, and that Homer is a poet; but what appellation
128 Text |          perfect order.~After him, as Homer says (Od.), ‘I lifted up
129 Text |               under that of poets, as Homer, Hesiod, and Simonides,
130 Text |           like the river Scamander in Homer, who, when beleaguered by
131 Text |        difficulties. For I think that Homer was very right in saying


The Republic
    Book
132 1    |               must have learnt out of Homer; for he, speaking of Autolycus,
133 1    |            perjury." ~And so, you and Homer and Simonides are agreed
134 2    |               of the noble Hesiod and Homer, the first of whom says
135 2    |            are provided for them. And Homer has a very similar strain;
136 2    |              uphill road: then citing Homer as a witness that the gods
137 2    |           said, which are narrated by Homer and Hesiod, and the rest
138 2    |            Then we must not listen to Homer or to any other poet who
139 2    |           although we are admirers of Homer, we do not admire the lying
140 3    |              moved." ~And we must beg Homer and the other poets not
141 3    |             we will once more entreat Homer and the other poets not
142 3    |               the various modes which Homer has delineated. Nor should
143 3    |             about the gods as that of Homer when he describes how ~"
144 3    |        language as that of Diomede in Homer, ~"Friend sit still and
145 3    |              can be approved. ~Loving Homer as I do, I hardly like to
146 3    |               that the speaker is not Homer, but the aged priest himself.
147 3    |          change might be effected. If Homer had said, "The priest came,
148 3    |               have illustrated out of Homer, that is to say, his style
149 3    |           meaning may be learned from Homer; he, you know, feeds his
150 3    |              are nowhere mentioned in Homer. In proscribing them, however,
151 3    |          after he has been wounded in Homer, drinks a posset of Pramnian
152 4    |           more appeal to the words of Homer, which have been already
153 4    |              soul;" for in this verse Homer has clearly supposed the
154 5    |         manner in which, according to Homer, brave youths should be
155 5    |                 Then in this, I said, Homer shall be our teacher; and
156 6    |              when existing among men, Homer calls the form and likeness
157 7    |           them? Would he not say with Homer, ~"Better to be the poor
158 8    |               we, after the manner of Homer, pray the muses to tell
159 10   |          youth had an awe and love of Homer, which even now makes the
160 10   |              that the tragedians, and Homer, who is at their head, know
161 10   |             we must put a question to Homer; not about medicine, or
162 10   |               him about them. "Friend Homer," then we say to him, "if
163 10   |         nothing of the kind. ~But, if Homer never did any public service,
164 10   |          Creophylus, the companion of Homer, that child of flesh, whose
165 10   |            stupidity, if, as is said, Homer was greatly neglected by
166 10   |             imagine, Glaucon, that if Homer had really been able to
167 10   |            that the contemporaries of Homer, or again of Hesiod, would
168 10   |           individuals, beginning with Homer, are only imitators; they
169 10   |             we listen to a passage of Homer or one of the tragedians,
170 10   |               any of the eulogists of Homer declaring that he has been
171 10   |             ready to acknowledge that Homer is the greatest of poets
172 10   |        especially when she appears in Homer? ~Yes, indeed, I am greatly
173 10   |            saying, are to be found in Homer and Hesiod; but justice


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
174 Pre  |          ridiculous interpretation of Homer, are entirely in the spirit
175 Text |          unmeasured woes upon them.’ (Homer. Odyss.)~He must have been
176 Text |            surely do not suppose that Homer, the wisest and most divine
177 Text |           this, I imagine:—By ‘badly’ Homer meant ‘bad’ and ‘knew’ stands
178 Text |             the sense which it has in Homer.) to make such a request;
179 Text |            say and what leave unsaid. Homer, too, will furnish us with
180 Text |          enveloped, just as Athene in Homer removes the mist from the


The Sophist
    Part
181 Intro|               which Achilles gives in Homer of the man whom his soul
182 Intro|         experience. Ten thousands, as Homer would say (mala murioi),
183 Intro|             have a poetical origin in Homer, and that of the Eleatics,
184 Intro|              god in disguise, who, as Homer would say, has come to earth
185 Text |           disguise of a stranger? For Homer says that all the gods,
186 Text |               hover about cities,’ as Homer declares, looking from above


The Symposium
    Part
187 Intro|               places,—not like Ate in Homer, walking on the skulls of
188 Intro|             poetry also, who compares Homer and Aeschylus in the insipid
189 Intro|             Achilles and Patroclus in Homer, an immoral or licentious
190 Intro|            literature, beginning with Homer and including the tragedians,
191 Text |         supported by the authority of Homer himself, who not only demolishes
192 Text |            and that, like Menelaus in Homer, I shall be the inferior
193 Text |                That courage which, as Homer says, the god breathes into
194 Text |             the other heroes; and, as Homer informs us, he was still
195 Text |            Otys and Ephialtes who, as Homer says, dared to scale heaven,
196 Text |             ought to have a poet like Homer to describe his tenderness,
197 Text |           describe his tenderness, as Homer says of Ate, that she is
198 Text |              my speech into stone, as Homer says (Odyssey), and strike
199 Text |                Who, when he thinks of Homer and Hesiod and other great
200 Text |           wounds to heal (from Pope’s Homer, Il.)’~shall prescribe and


Theaetetus
    Part
201 Intro|               the king of Comedy, and Homer, the king of Tragedy, at
202 Intro|             is not.” Thus the flux of Homer and Heracleitus, the great
203 Intro|               may say in the words of Homer, who played upon the words
204 Text |             the prince of Comedy, and Homer of Tragedy; when the latter
205 Text |              such a great army having Homer for its general, and not
206 Text |                is the golden chain in Homer, by which he means the sun,
207 Text |             be the same, whether with Homer and Heracleitus, and all
208 Text |             and tens of thousands, as Homer says, who give me a world
209 Text |             as you say, are as old as Homer, or even older still, the
210 Text |             the heart of the soul, as Homer says in a parable, meaning


Timaeus
    Part
211 Intro|              been as distinguished as Homer and Hesiod. ‘And what was
212 Intro|             science what the poems of Homer were to early Greek history.
213 Intro|          Their own interpretations of Homer and the poets were supposed
214 Intro|               to convert the poems of Homer into an allegory of the
215 Intro|         previous to Plato; neither in Homer, nor in Pindar, nor in Herodotus
216 Text |          would have been as famous as Homer or Hesiod, or any poet.~