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

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

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

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2022

He was Hermes’ son; a noisy, merry god, the Homeric Hymn in his honor calls him; but he was part animal too, with a goat’s horns, and goat’s hoofs instead of feet.

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