Homeric
Example Sentences
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All summer, voters, consultants, and pundits have repeatedly attached Obama’s name like a Homeric epithet to a bumper crop of young, talented, and mostly male candidates running across the country.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
“It isn’t just objects—in the Homeric poems we see a commitment to preparing things carefully.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
In a recent appearance on the "The Rest is Politics" podcast, he quoted from Homer's "Odyssey" in fluent Homeric Greek.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
"I had hoped that Nolan's affinity with these Homeric themes might push him to new creative heights, and enable him to conjure more believable characters," she wrote.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
In Nahuad rhetoric, things were frequently represented by the unusual device of naming two of their elements—a kind of doubled Homeric epithet.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
