Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of Homer, his works, or the legends and age of which he wrote.
- adjective Heroic in proportion, degree, or character; epic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Homer, the great epic poet of ancient Greece, or to the poetry that bears his name, and specifically to the Iliad and the Odyssey; resembling Homer's verse, or having some characteristic of his works.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer.
- adjective hexameter verse; -- so called because used by Homer in his epics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling or relating to the
epic poetry ofHomer . - adjective
Epic ,heroic , fit to beimmortalized in poetry by Homer.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or characteristic of Homer or his age or the works attributed to him
Etymologies
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Examples
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But however you read The Fall of Troyas a love story and mystery told in Homeric style, or as a deeper meditation on the relationship between reality and imaginationAckroyd the novelist re-emerges triumphantly from the mud of his excavations.
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Our dictionaries translate “Sidr” by “Lote-tree”; and no wonder that believers in Homeric writ feel their bile aroused by so poor a realisation of the glorious myth.
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The period between the end of the Aegean Age and the opening of historic times in Greece is usually called the Homeric Age, because many features of its civilization are reflected in two epic poems called the _Iliad_ and the _Odyssey_.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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This is because it is what might be called a Homeric error.
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This is because it is what might be called a Homeric error.
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This is because it is what might be called a Homeric error.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Most Commonly Misspelled Phrases: 2007
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Their appearance, when they were encamped on the Bowling Green, recalls the Homeric age:
Washington Irving 2004
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They all purport to be the work of the sibyls, and are expressed in hexameter verses in the so-called Homeric dialect.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The fourth canto, Li Demandaire (The Suitors), recalls the Homeric style, and is among the finest of the poem.
Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901
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Every one whose memory runs back thirty years will recall the Homeric encounters between the Bishop and Lord Chancellor Westbury in the House of Lords, and will remember the melancholy circumstances under which Lord Westbury had to resign his office.
Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886
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