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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

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

Of the pre-Homeric poetry we have no remains, and very little knowledge.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

The Greek cultus takes us back to a pre-Homeric disposition and culture.

From We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 by Kennedy, J. M. (John McFarland)