Homeric

Example Sentences

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But like the Homeric Greek hero it was named after, the lander has not had an easy journey with a neat happy ending.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2024

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

Her parents had even taken her to Greece so she could see some of the places mentioned in the Homeric epic.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022

And don’t get me started on the Homeric list of passwords we each must maintain to access online self-service, passwords we are constantly advised to change because some platform or other has just been hacked.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2022

“I fancy a bit of the Homeric way.”

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray