Iliad
noun
a Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy, ascribed to Homer.
Iliadic
-
a word derived from
Iliad.
Example Sentences
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Thersites skulks away, silenced, his Iliadic cameo at an end—but his long literary career as self-appointed flayer of heroic vanities is just beginning.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2016
It is an Iliadic arch that spans the siege of Troy, the death of the Trojan women and Aeneas' departure to establish Rome.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sudden lapse into the third person here for a couple of lines is due to the fact that the two Iliadic lines taken are in the third person.
From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Samuel Butler
But he does not carry these discoveries so far as to make the late grammar no less Iliadic than Odyssean.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
But that occurs in an "Odyssean" Book of the Iliad, Book IX.; and thus Odyssean seems lower, not more advanced, than Iliadic taste in morals.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
