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Pylos is typical of the places you encounter on a cruise like this one, where every site has innumerable strata of history; we were always encouraged to explore these post-Homeric layers.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2012

O. M�ller may well observe,* "We can scarcely take these rites to be new usages and the offspring of a post-Homeric civilisation".

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

The second period, which produced the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey", needs no description here: but it is very important to observe the effect of these poems on the course of post-Homeric epic.

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)

Moreover, the language in several places exhibits traces of post-Homeric date.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

The story of dipping Achillês in the river Styx is altogether post-Homeric.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham