Homeric

English 2018 March 25 Etymology thumb|A mosaic from La Olmeda, Spain, depicting a scene from the Iliad, a Homeric text (sense 1). It depicts Odysseus discovering Achilles dressed as a woman and hiding among the princesses at the royal court of Skyros. From en la homēricus of or pertaining to Homer; Homeric, from en grc Ὁμηρικός, from grc Ὅμηρος Homer (possibly from grc ὅμηρος hostage, a nickname) + grc -ῐκός suffix forming relational adjectives (ultimately from en ine-pro *-kos suffix forming relational adjectives); analysable as en Homer ic. Pronunciation en /həʊˈmɛɹɪk/ RP en /hoʊˈmɛɹɪk/ GA en en-au-Homeric.ogg AU en Ho mer ic Adjective Resembling or relating to the epic poetry of Homer. en [Samuel Johnson] [Echoes and Imitators] w:The Rambler Edinburgh Printed by Sands, Murray, and Cochran; sold by W. Gordon, C. Wright, J. Yair, and other booksellers 14 May 1751 V 121 132–133 819382551 The Rambler. In Four Volumes 14th London Printed by A[ndrew] Strahan, Printers-Street, for J. Johnson [et al.] 1801 III, number 121 97 https://archive.org/stream/therambler03johniala#page/97/mode/1up 63366464 The warmeſt admirers of the great Mantuan poet [Virgil] can extol him for little more than the ſkill with which he has, by making his hero both a traveller and a warrior, united the beauties of the Iliad and the Odyſſey in one compoſition: yet his judgment was perhaps ſometimes overborne, by his avarice of the Homeric treaſures; and, for fear of ſuffering a ſparkling ornament to be loſt, he has inſerted it where it cannot ſhine with its original ſplendor. en Henry John Todd Preliminary Observations on Paradise Regained The Poetical Works of John Milton. With Notes of Various Authors; and with some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty’s State-paper Office. [...] In Four Volumes 5th London Rivingtons [et al.] 1852 III xv https://books.google.com/books?id=Nz4-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR15 768086093 In the beginning of the Fourth Book the poet [John Milton] introduces an Homerick cluster of similes; which seems to mark an intention of bestowing more poetical decoration on the conclusion of the Poem, than on the preceding parts of it. en W[illiam] E[wart] Gladstone Sect. I. On the Mixed Character of the Supernatural System, or Theo-Mythology, of Homer. Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. [...] In Three Volumes Oxford At the University Press 1858 II (Olympus: Or, The Religion of the Homeric Age) 29–30 https://books.google.com/books?id=2acNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA30 1003940668 We, having obtained knowledge of the early derivation and distribution of mankind, and of the primitive religion, from sources other than those open to Homer, shall find in this knowledge the lost counterpart of a great portion of the Homeric myths. The theological and Messianic traditions which we find recorded in Scripture, when compared with the Homeric theogony, will be found to correspond with a large and important part of it: en w:Oswyn Murray The End of the Dark Age: The Aristocracy Early Greece 2nd Cambridge, Mass. w:Harvard University Press 1993 35 https://books.google.com/books?id=kc1hwPIPVBYC&pg=PA35 978-0-674-22132-1 In some respects Homeric society is clearly an artificial literary creation. It is a natural tendency of all heroic epic to exaggerate the social status and behaviour of everyone involved, so that characters appear generally to belong to the highest social class and to possess great wealth and extraordinary abilities, in implicit contrast with the inequalities and squalor of the present age. Of or pertaining to Greece during the Bronze Age, as described in Homer's works. en w:Hugh Blair A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal w:Ossian w:James Macpherson The Poems of Ossian; Translated by James Macpherson, Esq. to which are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and Dissertation on the Æra and Poems of Ossian Boston, Mass. Crosby, Nichols, Lee & Company 1860 103 https://books.google.com/books?id=sz4UAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA103 6642247 Women are often carried away by force; and the whole tribe, as in Homeric times, rise to avenge the wrong. Fit to be immortalized in poetry by Homer; epic, heroic. en w:Ford Madox Brown w:Virginia Surtees 1857 [chapter title] The Diary of Ford Madox Brown Studies in British Art New Haven, Conn.; London Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press 16 March 1857 1981 195 https://books.google.com/books?id=46pRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA195 978-0-300-02743-3 At home he [John Ruskin] looks young & rompish at the meeting, at Hunts meeting he looked old & ungainly, but his power & eloquence as a speaker were homeric. en Gerald Carson The Dark Age of American Drinking The Virginia Quarterly Review Charlottesville, Va. w:University of Virginia winter 1963 39 1 99 https://books.google.com/books?id=jxs0AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA99 83940592 In San Francisco there was a barroom for every one hundred inhabitants. Here beer and bourbon fought a homeric battle for the hearts and throats of the thin line of patriots who balanced on the city's brass rails and voluntarily gave the national debt a lift. Alternative forms en homeric en Homerick obsolete Synonyms en Homerical rare en Homerican obsolete Derived terms en Homeric catalogue,Homeric catalog Homeric simile Homeric epithet Homeric Greek Homeric laugh,Homeric laughter Homeric question Homerical<ll:rare> Homerically Homerican<ll:obsolete> post-Homeric Translations resembling or relating to the epic poetry of Homer Bulgarian: bg омировски Catalan: ca homèric Czech: cs homérský Danish: da homerisk Finnish: fi homeerinen French: fr homérique m f Middle French: frm Homericque Galician: gl homérico m German: de homerisch Greek: Ancient Greek: grc Ὁμηρικός Hungarian: hu homéroszi Icelandic: is hómerskur m, is hómerískur m Irish: ga Hóiméarach Italian: it omerico Latin: la homēricus, la homēriācus, la homērius Polish: pl homerowski, pl homerowy, pl homerycki, pl homeryczny Russian: ru гомери́ческий Spanish: es homérico Swedish: sv homerisk Turkish: tr Homerik Ukrainian: uk гоме́рівський References Further reading Homer en eponyms en Poetry