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
Not much proof of change in institutions between Iliadic and Odyssean times can be extracted from two passages about the ethna, or bride-price of Penelope.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
I have given the British Museum a copy of the "Odyssey" with the Iliadic passages underlined and referred to in MS.;
From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Samuel Butler
Here, as so often elsewhere in the "Odyssey," the appropriation of an Iliadic line which is not quite appropriate puzzles the reader.
From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Samuel Butler
