Homeric

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In Ari Aster’s new film “ Beau is Afraid,” Joaquin Phoenix plays an anxious man in a rotten world who goes on a wildly weird journey, both Homeric and Oedipal, to his mother’s home.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023

Even Homer nods, and Churchill, for all his Homeric largeness, did, too.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022

Mercenaries were considered the antithesis of the Homeric hero.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2022

The Homeric paradise that inspired Moussa is also the place where Beethoven’s symphony is headed.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2022

Next in order come the Homeric Hymns, poems written to honor various gods.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton