How To Use Homeric In A Sentence
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Ajax, the Achaeanvillain, feels more like a quasi-medieval feudal overlord from a fantasy novel than a brash Homeric warrior.
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And in the Homeric spirit, quite a few of the dramatis personae are blind, or partially blind.
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Thus, the ambiguity in the split authority flow creates organizational confusion, and Homeric breakdowns in communication.
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The new Socratic citizen let's call him that for a moment the new Socratic citizen may have some features in common with the older Homeric warrior.
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Those efforts reached an emotional crescendo with the unveiling of Bernard Tschumi's $200 million showplace, which seems less an architectural event or a museological accomplishment than the costliest and craftiest weapon in a Kulturkampf of Homeric intensity and duration.
Grading the New Acropolis
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Homeric Greek
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His ‘Homeric Ballads’, versified episodes from the Odyssey told in brisk, headlong style, were for Fraser's.
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Through the centuries the Homeric epics have influenced writers and philosophers for many different countries.
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At the same time, there is a strong suggestion that the kind of formal drinking party that takes place in the Homeric palace is, like the Classical symposium, for men only.
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According to Robertson, Homeric Greek has many more instances of the middle than the passive because neither the future nor the aorist had yet developed distinct forms to any great extent.
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Disembowellments, lower jaws hewn off, spears piercing thighs, bladders, lungs, eye sockets - each and every one of the harsh clinical, medical details of Homeric butchery.
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Resurrection meant life after life after death, and that was impossible for all Greeks, Homeric or Platonic.
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Mr. Dixon told all the Homeric story of the conference, reciting the achievements of the champions, "deploring" this and applauding that.
The Hill of Dreams
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Homeric glosses, along with scholarly neologisms and obscure periphrases, are prominent in his poetry.
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And he did so in order to, I think it's fair to say, to Homerically thumb his nose at what he saw as the increasing rigidification of politics in America, the triumph of the Cold War, as he saw it, the division of the world into two armed camps.
W.E.B. DuBois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
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It is the custom at some of their gatherings, after the hunting season is over, for the men to indulge in a kind of terpsichorean performance, at the same time relating in Homeric style the heroic deeds they have done.
The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants
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What is odd about Achilles' shield in this context, however, is that it does not contain an apotropaic image, but an encyclopedic vision of the Homeric world, filled with narrative scenes rather like those we find on Keats's urn.
Ekphrasis and the Other
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Looking back on the incident it seems matter for yet more Homeric laughter that Richardson should have called the resplendent genius of Fielding
Henry Fielding: a Memoir
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The Homeric cento is still extant, and has been repeatedly printed: but the claim of Eudocia to that insipid performance is disputed by the critics.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Sailing into a dark-blue yonder has become such an integral ingredient of Emma Richards' life that she can barely recall a time when she was not battling with the elements on Homeric quests.
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I said it was like stumbling on a village in Turkey in which everyone was wearing chitons & worshipping Zeus & spouting Homeric Greek.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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That is the neetive misure of the Oirish bards, an 'is iminiutly adapted to rendher the Homeric swinge.
The Lady of the Ice A Novel
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But in the Homerical urn of Patroclus, whatever was the solid tegument, we find the immediate covering to be a purple piece of silk: and such as had no covers might have the earth closely pressed into them, after which disposure were probably some of these, wherein we found the bones and ashes half mortared unto the sand and sides of the urn, and some long roots of quich, or dog's-grass, wreathed about the bones.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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These cyclic epics were obviously later than the Homeric poems, and from a time when oral composition had ceased and public performance was by rhapsodes, not traditional bards.
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I'll spare everyone my no doubt terribly obvious revelations about the ritual nature of lucha, but I was interested to know that "heel" and "face" in lucha are rudos and tecnicos, which is to say the same as the Homeric division of heroic qualities: bia and dolos, strength and cunning, or Machiavelli's lion and fox or, obviously, Dante's forza and frodo.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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He studied authors from the past along with modernists like Joyce, Eliot, and Pound, remarking how increased literacy altered oral cultures like Homeric Greece.
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The natural consecution of the Homeric images needs no exposition: it constitutes in itself one of the beauties of the work.
The Iliad of Homer
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These cyclic epics were obviously later than the Homeric poems, and from a time when oral composition had ceased and public performance was by rhapsodes, not traditional bards.
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Homeric epic provides the most powerful example of the Greek interest in the instability and elasticity of time.
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By their willing participation in this drama, Anzac troops were transformed from crude colonials to Homeric heroes.
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Hipparchos patronized performers like Anakreon and Simonides, embellished the herms he set up throughout Attica with gnomic sayings, and added Homeric recitals to the Panathenaia.
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The heroic Greece of the Homeric poems is already a Greece fragmented into independent city-states.
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This embedded chain of monuments builds a meaningful sequence of events, turning the wild nature of death into mythical history based on Renaissance topoi and Homeric myth.
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Shakespeare’s main object, or shall I rather say his ruling impulse, was to translate the poetic heroes of paganism into the not less rude, but more intellectually vigorous, and more _featurely_, warriors of Christian chivalry, — and to substantiate the distinct and graceful profiles or outlines of the Homeric epic into the flesh and blood of the romantic drama; — in short, to give a grand history-piece in the robust style of
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
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Thus, the ambiguity in the split authority flow creates organizational confusion, and Homeric breakdowns in communication.
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Parmenides gives us a poem in Homeric hexameters, narrating the journey of a young man (a kouros, in Greek) who is taken to meet a goddess who promises to teach him “all things”
Presocratic Philosophy
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Chapman's "fourteener" and reminding the reader frequently of Chapman's large, vigorous manner, his compound epithets and spacious Homeric similes.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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Projecting onto Homeric poetry the aesthetic principles of classicism, she wanted its perfection of form and content always to be emphasized.
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Next in order come the Homeric Hymns, poems written to honor various gods.
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For the Homeric civilization was not a different stage of development of that same civilization which appears when the first beginnings of what we are accustomed to call Hellenism are presented to us; it was totally diverse, and in many respects more complex and more splendid.
The Sea-Kings of Crete
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He studied authors from the past along with modernists like Joyce, Eliot, and Pound, remarking how increased literacy altered oral cultures like Homeric Greece.
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Nicander is a gifted Homeric glossator, but he is neither zoologist nor toxicologist.
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We may, I believe, safely compare the history of The Nights with the so-called Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, a collection of immortal ballads and old Epic formulæ and verses traditionally handed down from rhapsode to rhapsode, incorporated in a slowly-increasing body of poetry and finally welded together about the age of Pericles.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Thus, the ambiguity in the split authority flow creates organizational confusion, and Homeric breakdowns in communication.
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In this, as in other things, the Homeric poems observe the mean: the extremes may be found in the heroic literature of other nations; the extreme of marvellous fable in the old Irish heroic legends, for example; the extreme of plainness and "soothfastness" in the old English lay of _Maldon_.
Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
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Ah, yes, to be sure we were heroes, and I too (though now soft and self-conscious) played an Homeric part upon the yard, was bold, and afraid, and "funked" it with any god-smitten, panic-driven half-god by
A Tramp's Notebook
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We are stuck with the world we have lost, as news of the latest Homeric disaster emerges from the battlefronts of Mesopotamia.
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Few of his soldiers, shared Alexander's suicidal tendencies or his conviction that a glorious Homeric death in battle would necessarily assure one's status as a demigod post-mortem.
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Moreover, in the Homeric there exists an acute and graphic sense of how things work, are put together, come apart.
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But they are not on the field or trying to absorb some of the Homeric playbooks around the league.
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The first, wheel-engraving, was often centred on ancient forms, typically featuring Homeric themes from Flaxman applied to amphora and oinochee shaped decanters, ewers and vases.
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In such works as the Homeric epics, stock formulas served to maintain the rhythm of the verse and were mnemonically useful for performers and listeners alike.
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Besides the Homeric epics, his works represent the best manuscript tradition from Classical antiquity.
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To these we may add the nine notebook lines ‘Ad Vilmum Axiologum’ written somewhat later in 1805, and the distich on ‘The Homeric Hexameter,’.
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The schoolboys of classical Athens memorized the Homeric passages that taught the classical virtues.