Homeric

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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

Bring on the new shiny stuff: epic Homeric hugeness from Chistopher Nolan and sci-fi aliens from Steven Spielberg.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2026

Rather than slotting in as a “horror” film, it can be categorized a little less neatly as a surreal three-hour Homeric odyssey about Jewish guilt, Oedipal angst and somebody named “Birthday Boy Stab Man.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023

Mercenaries were considered the antithesis of the Homeric hero.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 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