Homeric
adjective
of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
post-Homeric
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a word derived from
Homeric.
Example Sentences
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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
Again, the worship of Dionysus, and of Demeter and Persephone, is mainly or wholly post-Homeric.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
This was a period which has nothing to compare with it in point of art and poetry, save perhaps, and that imperfectly, the heroic and post-Homeric age of early Greece.
From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller
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 practice of poets or rhapsodists contending for the prize at the great religious festivals is of considerable antiquity, though apparently post-Homeric.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
