homeric
Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer.
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Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.
Pois eisai? She wanted to know. Pou pas? The old Homeric questions of the Greek peasant. Who art thou? Where goest thou?
One is tempted to call them works of genius; they are quite Homeric in their internal unity, purity of phrasing, clear, ringing music of language and dramatic coloring.
The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego.
The comic strip: upholder of Homeric culture.
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.