Homeric

Example Sentences

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It’s a Homeric voyage, if Homer were familiar with the complicated system of roadways and toll stations that is the New Jersey Turnpike.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026

Rather than slotting in as a “horror” film, it can be categorized a little less neatly as a surreal three-hour Homeric odyssey about Jewish guilt, Oedipal angst and somebody named “Birthday Boy Stab Man.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023

As you can see, it is a Homeric list.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2022

Mercenaries were considered the antithesis of the Homeric hero.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2022

In Nahuad rhetoric, things were frequently represented by the unusual device of naming two of their elements—a kind of doubled Homeric epithet.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann