Homeric
adjective
of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
pre-Homeric
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a word derived from
Homeric.
Example Sentences
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The soapy epics of Herman Wouk and Marjorie Kellogg "illumined the ordinary events of ordinary lives ... and they were as primal as the bard singing around the pre-Homeric fire."
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2011
If his present solution is correct, scholars will not only have to rewrite the history of Crete, they will also have to change their ideas about the civilization of the pre-Homeric Greeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then was genius stirred To pre-Homeric lines, And drama grew.
From The Piper and the Reed by Robert W. Norwood
The evidence turns on theories of phonetic laws as they worked in pre-Homeric Greece.
From Modern Mythology by Andrew Lang
The worship of these heroes is in reality an ancestor worship, which existed in pre-Homeric times, and was preserved in local cults.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
