Homeric

Example Sentences

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It’s a Homeric voyage, if Homer were familiar with the complicated system of roadways and toll stations that is the New Jersey Turnpike.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 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

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

Mercenaries were considered the antithesis of the Homeric hero.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 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