Homeric

Word HOMERIC
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Definitions and meanings of "Homeric"

What do we mean by homeric?

Resembling or relating to the epic poetry of Homer.

Of or pertaining to Greece during the Bronze Age, as described in Homer's works.

Fit to be immortalized in poetry by Homer; epic, heroic.

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The word "homeric" in example sentences

Because of course, the fulfillment of stamping out widgets on the assembly line is so great it has inspired homeric epics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I´ve been reading Derek Alcott, a Carribean poet, who´s writing in the homeric-style (I´ll insert an example later). ❋ Dudemanflab (2007)

From his earliest manhood he had followed the drum, first under the veteran Dutch commanders in their long war against Catholic Spain and then under the greatest captain of the age, the veritable 'Lion of the North', King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, in his homeric struggle against the Imperial tyranny of the Holy Roman Empire on behalf of German Protestantism. '' ❋ Price, Anthony (1976)

Or was it the scene of some homeric combat _seul à seul_? ❋ P. B. M. Allan (N/A)

The body of native criticism remains as I have described it; an endless piling up of platitudes, an homeric mass of false assumptions and jejune conclusions, an insane madness to reduce beauty to terms of a petty and pornographic morality. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The poet was hymning the homeric struggle of the great goddesses, whose lances had clashed together since the beginning of the ages: the eternal Iliad which is to that of Troy what the Alps are to the little hills of Greece. ❋ Romain Rolland (1905)

It was a veritable barbecue, a crude and primitive feasting, barbaric, homeric. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)

When was the heroic policeman sung in homeric verse before? ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

He stripped to the waist, and each man presented a rounded development of muscular power, which would have done credit to any of the homeric heroes; but there was a look of grand intelligence and refinement in ❋ Unknown (1859)

Since its birth, the history of the Le Mans 24 Hours has been marked by homeric duels between the major manufacturers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I can’t see how he would have an easier time providing a “logical demonstration” of those one way or the other than of the non-existence of the homeric gods. ❋ Unknown (2007)

a proper name begins with a capital if it precedes, but with a small letter if it follows, the hyphen; as "Post-homeric," "Sunday-school." ❋ Joseph Devlin (N/A)

Do you know what the sun-burst symbol of the ancient royal house of Makedon was called in Ancient Greek? it was called an 'Asteroessa' - it means 'the starry eyed one' in reference to the ancient Greek god Hellios, and was also the symbol of many other Greek states as well including Athens - if you look under the metopes and internal cella of the Parthen, the Asteroessa symbols are carves there as well - they were a pan-Hellenic symbol of Hellios and common to all Ancient Greeks and go way back to the homeric Greeks! you uneducated sod, did you know this? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Inspector’s gloom, which increased even when they climbed into the two-seater Rover, was in such direct opposition to Mr Bowditch’s homeric cheerfulness that Mr Campion felt called upon to comment upon it. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1931)

Phoen. _, 26); the whole treatment of the parricide and incest, not as moral offences capable of being rationally judged or even excused as unintentional, but as monstrous and inhuman pollutions, the last limit of imaginable horror: all these things take us back to dark regions of pre-classical and even pre-homeric belief. ❋ 495? BC-406 BC Sophocles (1911)

Carlosbach ” the celebrated Dr. Carlosbach ” this benefactor of humanity, suddenly altered his tone, and burst into an homeric shout of laughter. ❋ Houdin, Robert (1858)

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