Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven
far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy.
—Homer
All in Epic Poetry
The Iliad: The Original Heroic Epic
No man is going to dispatch me to Hades before my due time;
and as for that time, no man, I say, can ever escape it,
whether coward or brave, when once he has been born.
—Hector of Troy