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homeric

Adjective

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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. Camille Paglia

Pois eisai? She wanted to know. Pou pas? The old Homeric questions of the Greek peasant. Who art thou? Where goest thou? John Fowles

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. James Macpherson

The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego. Marshall McLuhan

The comic strip: upholder of Homeric culture. Marshall McLuhan

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. Robert Fitzgerald

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