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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 alleged distinction of early Iliadic grammar, late Odyssean grammar, in that case vanishes.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew

But suppose, on the other hand, that the later Odyssean grammar abounds all through the whole Iliad, then that grammar is not more Odyssean than it is Iliadic.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew

In this case the Iliadic and earlier Odyssean houses are those of a single definite age, neither Mycenaean of the prime, nor Hellenic—a fact which entirely suits our argument.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew