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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

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

It is an overflow from the Iliadic passage in which Neptune hobbles his horses in bonds "which none could either unloose or break so that they might stay there in that place."

From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Butler, Samuel

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 Butler, Samuel