Homeric

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The controversy has therefore become less about Homeric mythology itself and more about ongoing cultural disagreements over representation, identity and who audiences view as worthy of iconic roles in modern entertainment.

From Salon • May 16, 2026

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

As the writer James Surowiecki put it, NFL Films “tried to simultaneously convey the gritty reality of the game and mythicize it in a Homeric fashion.”

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2023

He’s not a Homeric classical heroic — by which, I mean someone whose intention is always to do good.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022

The first story about the creation of the narcissus is told only in an early Homeric Hymn of the seventh or eighth century, the second I have taken from Ovid.

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