Book 8 (Odyssey) Quotes

• "Nothing makes a man more famous during his lifetime as what he can achieve with his hands and feet."- Laodamas
• "One can see you are no athlete."

  Euryalus
• "Only a fool or a nonentity would challenge the friend who is entertaining him in a strange country."


  Odysseus
• "There is no one I'll back away from and no one I'll consider beneath me."

  Odysseus
• "To any man with the slightest claim to common sense, a guest and suppliant is as close as a brother."


  Alcinous