They look back on no Heroic Age, no achilles, no Agamemnon, and no Homer.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
But Alfieri knew that there was something very wrong about himself, he felt a deficiency, a jar in his own soul; he felt, as he describes in the famous sonnet at the back of Fabre's portrait of him, that he did not know whether he was noble or base, whether he was achilles or Thersites.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
In achilles, in Hector, and in Odysseus,-in Helen, Andromache, and Nausicaa, we recognise embodiments the most real, yet the most transcendent, of the grandeur, the heroism, the courage, and strong affection of manhood, and of the grace, the gentleness, and the sweet vivacity of woman.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar