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Summarizing Homer's superior beauties in a few striking pages, she unveils a genuine understanding of the Homeric text.
Moreover, in the Homeric there exists an acute and graphic sense of how things work, are put together, come apart.
Perhaps classical scholars will wince, but putting a personal spin on history couldn't be more Homeric.
Resurrection meant life after life after death, and that was impossible for all Greeks, Homeric or Platonic.
But they are not on the field or trying to absorb some of the Homeric playbooks around the league.
Through the centuries the Homeric epics have influenced writers and philosophers for many different countries.
Courage was the defining virtue of the Homeric hero, and Aristotle evidently loved heroic courage above all.
The heroic Greece of the Homeric poems is already a Greece fragmented into independent city-states.
Homeric epic provides the most powerful example of the Greek interest in the instability and elasticity of time.
We are stuck with the world we have lost, as news of the latest Homeric disaster emerges from the battlefronts of Mesopotamia.
The schoolboys of classical Athens memorized the Homeric passages that taught the classical virtues.
In this respect, aspects of the Homeric terminology that relate to feasting are particularly interesting.
Homeric glosses, along with scholarly neologisms and obscure periphrases, are prominent in his poetry.
In the second chapter, the author applies the meaning attributed to the agent nouns to the interpretation of the Homeric texts.
By their willing participation in this drama, Anzac troops were transformed from crude colonials to Homeric heroes.
Projecting onto Homeric poetry the aesthetic principles of classicism, she wanted its perfection of form and content always to be emphasized.
He linked himself to the Homeric story, creating the foremost literary monument of European modernism, Ulysses.
And now it's going to be a Homeric victory when the voters return Evan to office.
Anaxagoras, too, explained the Homeric poems as discussions of virtue and justice.
And all the well-informed Greeks knew these Homeric legends, which were actually history, as well as being legends.
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But the Vedas, the Homeric poems, the Tripitaka as well, existed in memory long before they were committed to writing.
And with peals of Homeric laughter Ferdinand declared she had found the only inoffensive way of silencing him.
The Homeric solution is to divide the man, or to double him, into his shade and his self.
The place had an Homeric simplicity and beauty which touched his sense of fitness.
Once or twice a vast roar of Homeric laughter went up as some unfortunate slipped and soused into the water.
It deals merely with the legalised recitation of Homeric poetry, and of that poetry alone, at the Panathenaea.
Here the late poets have their innings at last, and do modernise the Homeric house.
At Athens there was a law that the Homeric poems should be recited on every occasion of the Panathenaea.
But this is now as undeserving of its constant Homeric epithet of leaf-shaking as is Zakynthos of its epithet of woody.
The monster is the fosterling of Hera in the Homeric hymn, and the bane of flocks and herds.
They produced them with such spontaneousness, that all three could not help bursting into Homeric laughter.
This preposterous proposition was received with the Homeric laughter it so richly deserved.
But when they reached the carriages and stood still, they broke into an irrepressible, irresistible fit of Homeric laughter.
Larissa, written larisa on ancient coins and inscriptions, is near the site of the Homeric Argissa.
We can go no further till we find an unrifled cairn burial answering to Homeric descriptions.
The measure amazed his own followers and was greeted by the Whigs with Homeric laughter.
The low, angry murmuring suddenly ceased, and a great wave of Homeric laughter rolled over the crowd.
To his mind she lent a tone to the vulgar whirlpool of gorging humanity, as if she had been some goddess mixing in a Homeric battle.
The civilization of Homeric Troy, which commanded the Hellespont, still fascinates many visitors today.
Then his mood suddenly changed, and he burst into Homeric laughter.
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