Homeric

Example Sentences

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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

They took turns reciting Homeric genealogies, full of falsifications and borrowings from real life, and sometimes they fought over this or that favorite real uncle or aunt, and had to bargain like casting directors.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides