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
It did not occur to Theagenes to ask whether any evidence existed to show that the pre-Homeric Greeks were Empedoclean or Heraclitean philosophers.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
Another objection to the hypothesis of distribution from historic India is the existence of sagas or epic legends corresponding to marchen in pre-Homeric Greece.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
And he claims that the Seelencult or ancestor-worship of the later Greeks must have been continuous from pre-Homeric times.
From On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay by Hugh E. (Hugh Exton) Seebohm
