She says: Arthur T. Murray,[3] translator of the original Loeb Classical Library edition of the Odyssey, commented: Homer greatly influenced Greek literature as a whole.
[4] Plato refers to the two gates in his dialogue Charmides: A reference to the Odyssean image also appears in the late (c. AD 400) epic poet Nonnus: Virgil borrowed the image of the two gates in lines 893–898 of Book 6 of his Aeneid, describing that of horn as the passageway for true shadows[7] and that of ivory as that through which the Manes in the underworld send false dreams up to the living.
In John Wesley's last sermon, preached on 17 January 1791, he spoke of how uncertain even the best conjectures about the invisible world were without revelation: "The most finished of all these accounts, is that of the great Roman poet.
There Theseus and also Hercules made their way: there brave and victorious Ulysses went to the gloomy homes of the Cimmerians; there faithful Aeneas took to the Stygian lake Avernus.
[16] The gates of horn and ivory appear in the following notable English written works: Various metal bands have referenced the image, including in songs on No Exit, Eye of Providence, and by Jesus Piece.