pre-Homeric
- 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
Yet it is clear that Homer refined Greek mythology, while many of the cruder elements of that mythology survived from pre-Homeric times in local cults and popular religious observances.
From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington
Then was genius stirred To pre-Homeric lines, And drama grew.
From The Piper and the Reed by Norwood, Robert W.
The evidence turns on theories of phonetic laws as they worked in pre-Homeric Greece.
From Modern Mythology by Lang, Andrew
