| 单词 | Homeric |
| 例句 | He was Hermes’ son; a noisy, merry god, the Homeric Hymn in his honor calls him; but he was part animal too, with a goat’s horns, and goat’s hoofs instead of feet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Next in order come the Homeric Hymns, poems written to honor various gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Very Homeric. Of course, it would be grammatically correct but perhaps a bit off contextually.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The first story about the creation of the narcissus is told only in an early Homeric Hymn of the seventh or eighth century, the second I have taken from Ovid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I fancy a bit of the Homeric way.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z One of the Homeric Hymns, calling her “Beautiful, golden goddess,” says of her:— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Sorry if I get a little Homeric at times. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They took turns reciting Homeric genealogies, full of falsifications and borrowings from real life, and sometimes they fought over this or that favorite real uncle or aunt, and had to bargain like casting directors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was strange that a boy who could fight like that and enjoy it so intensely never quarreled, never fought, and he had almost nothing to say about this really Homeric battle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Totally crushing on you in a Homeric way.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In Nahuad rhetoric, things were frequently represented by the unusual device of naming two of their elements—a kind of doubled Homeric epithet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This story is told only in a very early poem, one of the earliest of the Homeric Hymns, dating from the eighth or the beginning of the seventh century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In his restless search for a new poetic language, Mr. Antin began experimenting in the early 1970s with a style of performance that was part lecture, part stand-up routine and part Homeric recitation. David Antin Dies at 84; Poet Created a New Performance Style 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Virgil Flowers, an agent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is one of the few series detectives to have a Homeric epithet — no, make that a bawdy Chaucerian epithet. Review | How does he do it? John Sandford’s ‘Holy Ghost’ is another winner. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z But Homeric specialists should be warned that this is not simply a condensed recitation of the poem, but a retelling that emphasizes contemporary vernacular over poetry. Theater Review: ?An Iliad? at New York Theater Workshop 2012-03-08T03:00:16Z It could take place in modern-day England or the Homeric age of heroes. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z This is the cue for a clash between opposing tools of slaughter: the Homeric versus the mechanized. Top Ten Things About Wonder Woman 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z There are hints of Wordsworth's sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, and of Keats, and his Homeric "realms of gold". Poem of the Week: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 2012-06-04T10:42:44Z In its pulsating lights and screaming advertisements she saw profound poetry; as she put it to a reporter a decade later: “Times Square I knew had this great wisdom — it was Homeric.” New York’s Poet of Light and Letters 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z A version of this review appears in print on February 3, 2014, on page C1 of the with the headline: Underworld Notes, In the Homeric Sense . Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z Mary Zimmerman's freely imagined vision of the Homeric tale was staged 20 years ago at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. On Seattle stages: ancient Greece, 'The Scream,' your neighbors' deep, dark secrets 2011-02-03T20:38:12Z His last book, “The Lost Books of the Odyssey,” was a sequence of cleverly Borgesian short stories that imagined variations within the framework of the Homeric poem. Classical Myths Filtered Through a Modern Prism 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Homeric Hymns Four Larks brings ancient Greek songs and poems to life in this new workshop production. L.A. theater openings, April 16-23: 'The Walking Forest' and more 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z In his work, Shakespeare expresses the values of the rising middle class, assailing Homeric ideals, dismissing religion, deconstructing and undermining the heroic. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Planning to devote a further three years to polishing his Homeric magnum opus, the unfortunate poet instead fell mortally ill in 19 BCE and ordered his friends to destroy the manuscript. Virgil’s ‘The Aeneid’ still looks strikingly contemporary 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Invariably, like a Homeric epithet, it has become the phrase regularly used to introduce him as a composer. A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z In this case it’s those Homeric suitors trying to win the heart of Penelope, while her husband, Odysseus, is away on business. | Oct. 17 ? 23 2010-10-15T16:51:00Z Euripides, the most irreverent of the Greek tragedians, cuts these Homeric figures down to size. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z No other ballet shares this one’s Homeric sense that immortals can move seamlessly and harmoniously in and out of the world of mortals. How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Tells Its Story Through Ballet 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z But the trip feels almost Homeric, an odyssey that seems to embrace all the essential primal acts of life and death, of sex and violence. Theater Review: Mary McCann in ‘Harper Regan’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z Mr. Logue, who used earlier English translations as points of departure and consulted frequently with scholars of Homeric Greek, took pains to stress that his “Iliad” was not a translation but an adaptation. British Poet Christopher Logue Dies at 85 2011-12-10T20:49:32Z Several scenes are set on large lonely rocks like those loved by Homeric poets and Symbolist painters. Dana Schutz’s New Paintings Just Might Be Her Best 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z In consequence, these works were composed anew whenever they were performed, much as the Homeric epics were recreated by oral bards each time they were sung. Robert Ashley, Opera Composer Who Painted Outside the Lines, Dies at 83 2014-03-07T03:00:51Z He saw baseball as a Homeric allegory, one in which a hero — the batter — ventures from home and must overcome unforeseen challenges in order to return. Donald Kagan, Leading Historian of Ancient Greece, Dies at 89 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z As the writer James Surowiecki put it, NFL Films “tried to simultaneously convey the gritty reality of the game and mythicize it in a Homeric fashion.” How Damar Hamlin’s Recovery Allowed Us to Breathe 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z One monumental example from the Branly collection, fittingly known as the Grand Robe, depicts, in more than a dozen episodes and with a cast of some 60 figures, the Homeric exploits of two Lakota warriors. Review: ‘The Plains Indians,’ America’s Early Artists, at the Met 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z There’s no Homeric apotheosis here, just a frank appraisal of a man who lives within the limits of the natural world. DVD: John Wayne and Alex Cord: Two Ringo Kids of ?Stagecoach? 2011-10-15T22:23:03Z As the Homeric myth is recounted here, she learns of the anguish of those in the Underworld and descends to console them. Extraordinary Creatures, and Some Elusive Ones, at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z I was first drawn towards this understanding of master and slave through being immersed in Homeric poetry. Alice Oswald on the Devonshire landscape: 'There's a terror in beauty' 2012-07-13T11:17:14Z Cronin picks open the wound with a few unnerving disappearances, but then once the lights go out, he launches breathtaking Homeric battles between viral hordes and soft-bellied humans. Review: Justin Cronin’s long-awaited ‘City of Mirrors’ 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z If the miners bear some resemblance to a motley band of sailors blown terribly off course in an ancient Homeric legend, their women battling for their return evoke the stoic determination of three dozen Penelopes. Hector Tobar's 'Deep Down Dark' chronicles Chile's mine-shaft miracle 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z I repeat the Homeric word “contend” advisedly, partly because it is cognate with “content”: Ulysses became famous right away for its illicit contents and its alleged incomprehensibility. 'Ulysses' and the Moral Right to Pleasure 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z In Matthew’s telling, Clay is graced with Homeric greatness, tinged with mythic prowess and affliction. Review | ‘Bridge of Clay,’ by ‘Book Thief’ author Markus Zusak, was 20 years in the making 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z If “Iraqi Odyssey” is a Homeric parable, he suggests, Iraq is the equivalent of Penelope, patiently waiting for Odysseus to return. Review: ‘Iraqi Odyssey’ Shows the Arc of a Family and a Country 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Minus the tippling, this is a carryover from the two years of classical Greek taught at my Jesuit high school in St. Louis, where we covered sizable portions of both Homeric epics. Book review: ‘Why Homer Matters,’ by Adam Nicholson 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z To Bravo and Harris, the thread was a modern-day Homeric epic. In ‘Zola,’ Janciza Bravo’s cinema of ‘life at high volume’ 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z The effect is of ritualistic gravity, Homeric weight. ‘Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece,’ a Portrait of a Biblical Betrayal 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z In a program note, he observes that Asphodel Meadows” is the Homeric name for the underworld of the dead but stresses that his ballet is principally abstract. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘A Program of Firsts,’ a Tricky Triple Bill 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z They can be an unneeded distraction from the fierce, coherent beauty of the Homeric narrative. Theater review: 'An Iliad' proves an ancient tale can still be meaningfully and well-told 2010-04-15T20:08:00Z A Gangster Named Ulysses Goes Home and Homeric The muscle and the molls are in the parlor, hunkered down and waiting for the cops. Movie Review: ?Keyhole,? Directed by Guy Maddin, With Jason Patric 2012-04-05T22:59:39Z Like the Greek tragedies and Homeric epics, these “adventures” are not for the faint of heart: the story has its fair share of brutality. Alexei Ratmansky’s Epic Ballet Arrives in a Changed World 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Some of his songs, including “Ballad of Hollis Brown,” “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” “Hurricane” and “some others,” he said, “definitely are Homeric in value.” Bob Dylan Speaks, at Last, on His Nobel 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Having written acknowledgments before, I sympathize with the impulse to go Homeric, actually. With a Little Help From Their Friends (and Agents and Librarians and Fact-Checkers ...) 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z "We thought it would be something ridiculous, symbolic, almost Homeric," says Kötting, when we meet a year later. Swandown: two men in a pedalo 2012-07-18T17:17:15Z While I painted, my husband attended classes and lectures at Cambridge University through its summer program, studying the Roman Empire and the Homeric epics. Painting en plein air in the English countryside 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Parts of the story are narrated by a blind singer — a literally Homeric figure — and the story itself upholds Ezra Pound’s definition of the epic as “a poem containing history.” ‘Birds of Passage’ Review: An Epic Narco Tale That Will Open Your Eyes 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z “The Committed” opens with a scene that feels Homeric, as a group of refugees make a treacherous journey in the belly of a fishing boat. He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z The wake is among the oldest rites of humanity first cited in the great Homeric war poem the Iliad and commonly practised across Europe until the last 200 years. Why the Irish get death right 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z In a sense, the imagined grotesquerie of the Homeric Sirens was yet another way for patriarchs to repress the ambivalence of other voices. In ‘Siren,’ Artists and Poets Singing From the Rocks 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Or as we’ve taken to calling it: Land of the Lotus-Eaters, in mock Homeric tribute to how hard it is to leave the town. There’s more in Chapel Hill than the Tar Heels, a family finds 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z “The Odyssey,” of course, is one — of the two Homeric epics it’s the one that students tend to enjoy more. Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Just by showing up, he would also have settled the Homeric question once and for all. Karl Ove Knausgaard: By the Book 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z There were people called rhapsodes, who would sing Homeric songs at Greek festivals. Bob Dylan 101: A Harvard Professor Has the Coolest Class on Campus 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Like his Homeric namesake Ulysses is seeking a way back to his wife, though there is not much evidence of love or loyalty between them. Movie Review: ?Keyhole,? Directed by Guy Maddin, With Jason Patric 2012-04-05T22:59:39Z The Homeric underworld is a place of permanent lockdown, where the dead live on as unreachable, self-isolating ghosts. The power of touch: what will it be like when we can all connect again? 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z She blended two different texts to craft the libretto: a Homeric siren song and a portion of James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” A Grand History of Small Operas 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z She wrestled with contemporary questions of feminism and colonialism without imposing them on the values of Homeric Greece. New & Noteworthy 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s a Homeric quest to reclaim control over the heroine’s own life and sanity. Life Advice From a Dead Grandmother Who’s Returned as a Bird 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Oliver brings it right back to the foreground with a Homeric speech about income inequality and the “American Dream.” Must-see morning clip: John Oliver tackles income inequality, destroys myth of “American Dream” 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z All around town, wall maps pinpointed the far-flung locations of Homeric sites such as Eumaeus’s pigsty, the nymph’s cave and Odysseus’s palace. Lost in the Odyssey 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z Interspersed throughout are brief descriptions of Ettore’s photographs, which become a material plot point that draws him and Hirut together decades later, while also working as a canny literalization of the Homeric metaphor. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z That sounds right, especially when you consider the daunting challenge of memorizing and reciting works as long as the Homeric epics. Book review: ‘Why Homer Matters,’ by Adam Nicholson 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z The old Homeric civilizations — the Mycenaeans on the Greek mainland, the Minoans on Crete — are on the wane, but internationalist traffic is fully underway. ‘Assyria to Iberia,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Nearly a century after his death, he is still known as “the Darwin of Homeric Studies.” Kicking Homer to the Curb: The American Scholar Who Upended the Classics 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Amid the gorgeous Capri scenery, Mr. Godard muses on storytelling’s evolution from the Homeric epic to the modern myth making of the movies, and on iconography’s progression from bronze statues to Ms. Bardot. Movie Listings for April 1-7 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Taproot Theatre brings to life Mary Zimmerman's vibrant adaptation of the Homeric saga about the mythic journey home by a Trojan War hero. The Week Ahead: Morcheeba's on The Seattle Times' list of A&E highlights 2011-02-24T00:39:04Z To a Pintupi viewer, they function like Homeric epithets — jogging the memory, reiterating sacred knowledge. Can We Start Appreciating Indigenous Art on Its Own Terms? 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Images of shattered architecture, nude men and children in turn-of-the-last-century clothes combine to suggest the Homeric grandeur and autobiographical intimacy of Cavafy’s poetry. Art in Review: JOHN O?REILLY: ?Recent Montage? 2011-06-30T21:24:36Z The values on display in the Homeric poems spoke to the Greeks of the Archaic Age in how they deter-mined what was good and desirable in human behavior in general. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z The values on display in the Homeric poems spoke to the Greeks of the Archaic Age in how they determined what was good and desirable in human behavior in general. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than slotting in as a “horror” film, it can be categorized a little less neatly as a surreal three-hour Homeric odyssey about Jewish guilt, Oedipal angst and somebody named “Birthday Boy Stab Man.” Here are the new movies opening at Seattle-area theaters this week 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z In Ari Aster’s new film “ Beau is Afraid,” Joaquin Phoenix plays an anxious man in a rotten world who goes on a wildly weird journey, both Homeric and Oedipal, to his mother’s home. Q&A: Aster, Phoenix try to discuss ‘Beau is Afraid’ 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z As you can see, it is a Homeric list. Column: 'Love Actually' is like fruitcake: love it or hate it (and I choose love), it's here to stay 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Even Homer nods, and Churchill, for all his Homeric largeness, did, too. Opinion | Be thankful for the pugnacious Zelensky’s magnificent resistance to suppression 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z He’s not a Homeric classical heroic — by which, I mean someone whose intention is always to do good. How filming naked in a glass sphere for weeks was good for 'Sandman's' Tom Sturridge 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z They aren’t exactly Homeric dactyls, but they seem intended to mirror that ancient literary form, and they give “Everyday Life” an easily digestible if slightly pretentious rhythm. Review | In Annie-B Parson’s book, art and life are always intersecting 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Mercenaries were considered the antithesis of the Homeric hero. Paid to Fight, Even in Ancient Greece 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Her parents had even taken her to Greece so she could see some of the places mentioned in the Homeric epic. He came out as trans. Then Texas had him investigate parents of trans kids. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The Homeric paradise that inspired Moussa is also the place where Beethoven’s symphony is headed. Review: The exult and ecstasy of Beethoven's Ninth at the Hollywood Bowl 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z And don’t get me started on the Homeric list of passwords we each must maintain to access online self-service, passwords we are constantly advised to change because some platform or other has just been hacked. Column: Self-serve beer at Dodger Stadium? Nope. Let's take the 'self' out of 'self-service' 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The extent of their Homeric wanderings, she added, “demonstrates how important it is to protect the larger landscape.” The Incredible Journey of Three African Wild Dogs 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z When Mei hides her brand-new panda self in the bathroom, Ming assumes that “the red peony” has bloomed and produces, to hilarious and poignant effect, a Homeric list of sanitary pad options. Column: If you can't relate to 'Turning Red,' you must not like good movies 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z The Homeric odyssey continued as the plane flew on to Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. How Pearl Harbor forced the first around-the-globe commercial flight 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z It will look awful in the wake of President Biden’s Homeric incompetence in Afghanistan. Let the incompetent Democrats own the shutdown 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z But the next day, when Mr. Baluchi, 49, realized that his backup GPS device and charging cables were missing — he said they were stolen — he cut short his Homeric odyssey. He Tried to Walk on Water From Florida to New York. It Didn’t Go So Well. 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Reviewing it in the Times, Ronald Steel wrote, “If there is one book that captures the Vietnam War in the sheer Homeric scale of its passion and folly, this book is it.” Neil Sheehan Dies at 84; Times Reporter Obtained the Pentagon Papers 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “If there is one book that captures the Vietnam War in the sheer Homeric scale of its passion and folly, this book is it.” Neil Sheehan, N.Y. Times reporter who obtained Pentagon Papers and chronicled ‘Bright Shining Lie’ of Vietnam, dies at 84 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Homeric poets saw the soul as the thing humans risk in battle, or the thing that distinguishes life from death. Biden and Trump Say They’re Fighting for America’s ‘Soul.’ What Does That Mean? 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z “I don’t believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries.” William Barr’s State of Emergency 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The Lotus Eaters and Lord Tennyson were on his mind when he went, thinking of ancient wandering philosophies, from the Homeric journey to the Aborigine walkabout. The great American adventure is on hold... for now 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z He sets the song up as the beginning of a Homeric epic journey might unfold: Bob Dylan surprise-releases epic new 17-minute song, 'Murder Most Foul' 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Wolves, already 38 matches into a Homeric season, are on a run of four without a win; United, by contrast, are coming off the back of an impressive rhythm-relocating four-goal thumping of Norwich City. Manchester United v Wolves: FA Cup third-round replay – live! 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z He doesn’t even bother to chuck in the sex scenes that made his other books notorious – there’s too much going on in the Aegean sky, the wine-dark sea and the Homeric landscapes. From Geoff Dyer to Nietzsche: the best books to inspire wanderlust 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z What began as a first date becomes an odyssey, in the Homeric sense. ‘Queen & Slim’ Could Be One of the Great Love Stories of All Time — if You Let It 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Even today, the television news anchor seems to be an extension of the Homeric narrator. Relax, Devin Nunes — theater is essential to politics 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z It all started with the Homeric poems: The Iliad, about the Trojan war; and The Odyssey, about Greek fighter Odysseus’s troubled, circuitous return home after victory. From carnage to a camp beauty contest: the endless allure of Troy 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z In 1955, Partch wrote an instrumental piece, “Ulysses at the Edge of the World,” the Homeric Greek king’s wanderings seen as their own kind of hobo trip. Review: Harry Partch, the hobo years 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Seán Doran, of the project producer Arts Over Borders, said the Homeric connection between the Mediterranean and Ireland was not totally outlandish. 'Barcelona with rain': Galway promises deluge of culture 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z These mythic women were so often the catalysts for the action of Homeric epic poetry, but banished to the sidelines of the action itself. Unpaid, unelected, unknowable? The mystery of presidential first ladies 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “Everyone dies and … I don't believe in the Homeric idea that … immortality comes by … having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?” Electoral College hackers handed twin defeats 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z “Everyone dies and I am not, you know, I don’t believe in the Homeric idea that you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?” Elizabeth Warren says she'd reverse policy on indicting presidents – live 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s not so surprising that these two men seeking the highest office in the land have chosen a Homeric epic to undergird their own myth-making. Opinion | How Pete Buttigieg stole Beto O’Rourke’s mojo 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z But who better than women to amplify the costly errors of Homeric men? Gareth Hinds' illustrated 'Iliad' follows the fights and follies of egomaniacal men 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z It’s a Latinized name for the hero, Odysseus, in the Homeric epic The Odyssey. Who anointed Beto O'Rourke to be our political saviour? He did | Moira Donegan 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z We are not moved to write polemics against paganism when Homer has Odysseus slaughter Penelope’s suitors, such massacres being as much a part of Homeric time as banquets and bards. How to Read the Good Books 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z In modern Greek, epítheto means “adjective,” but Homeric epithets are loaded, often thrillingly ambiguous, and can act as a catalyst for drama. Mary Norris: Greek to Me 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z That work, which dates from about the same period, depicts a similar vessel bearing Odysseus past the sirens, with the Homeric hero lashed to the mast in order to resist their songs. World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered in Black Sea 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Who better than women to amplify the costly errors of Homeric men? Gareth Hinds' illustrated 'Iliad' follows the fights and follies of egomaniacal men 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z In this way, Virgil’s Homeric riff prefigures James Joyce’s, twenty centuries later: whatever the great passages of intense humanity, there are parts that feel like a treasure hunt designed for graduate students of the future. Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Miller said she was initially worried when one ex-boyfriend described her work as “Homeric fanfiction” but has since embraced her love of adapting and playing with Greek mythology. From Star Trek to Fifty Shades: how fanfiction went mainstream 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z When he emerged from Mt Zion, three weeks later, he didn’t speak a word of Spanish for 10 years – note the reappearance of this Homeric time-span. Ariel Dorfman: 'Not to belong anywhere, to be displaced, is not a bad thing for a writer' 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Nostalgia will be rife before the game starts, with memories turning to those Homeric battles between United and Arsenal from 1996-2005. Manchester United v Arsenal: Premier League – live! 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Quite literally the Catholic preparatory schools conditioned their players to continue the rivalries at the college and university levels where the battles were Homeric! Why Catholic Colleges Excel at Basketball 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Particularly in comparison with his Homeric predecessors, Aeneas comes up short, lacking the cruel glamour of Achilles, or Odysseus’s beguiling smarts. Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Wine has been known as a magical substance since its appearances in Homeric tales. Prehistoric Wine Discovered in Inaccessible Caves Forces a Rethink of Ancient Sicilian Culture 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Still, there is some evidence that the oral tradition behind the Homeric epics traces as far back as Linear B, the first Greek writing system. A Grecian Artifact Evokes Tales From the ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z They turned homerific in the first inning and Homeric before the third. MLB playoffs start with a bang as Yankees win frenetic AL wild-card game 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z The preparations for Brexit on either side of the English Channel offer a Homeric parable of chaos and order. The EU’s Brexit negotiators prepare for disaster 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z That feud grew into an epic drama of Homeric proportions. At gathering of HIV/AIDS pioneers, raw memories mix with current conflicts 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z There’s an Homeric Odyssey-like quality to A Hundred Thousand Worlds: a journey that takes place after a long separation, populated by strange characters along the trip. A Hundred Thousand Worlds captures the spirit of Comic-Con culture 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z So the oral tradition that led to the Homeric epics perhaps stretched over seven centuries. A Grecian Artifact Evokes Tales From the ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Regardless, this is now the way that many of us talk about sports, as if the games themselves exist only to provide the episodes of some ever-developing Homeric epic. Bill Simmons Brings His Act to HBO 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Verbal pyrotechnics and philosophical speculation alternate with pop-culture allusions and Homeric lists. It’s tennis season, so let’s hear from. . . David Foster Wallace 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Duncan was a daemonic bard with a Homeric attitude, who often wore a black cape and a broad-brimmed hat. The Art in Adrienne Rich’s Activism 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z It produced no great palace cultures, like Knossos or Mycenae; it left its traces in no Homeric epics. Footprints, Size 10, from Britain’s Bronze Age 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Dr. Blakolmer, too, finds it tempting to see the figures on the seal as Homeric heroes, like Hector or Nestor, but in his view the temptation must be resisted. A Grecian Artifact Evokes Tales From the ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Films such as Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde and Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch dispensed with the Homeric invulnerability of cinema’s formative heroes. How Isis hijacked pop culture, from Hollywood to video games 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z There’s also an enormous amount of very painstaking, erudite technical work that’s been done over the centuries by modern Homeric scholars. War is Unavoidable—and Other Hard Lessons from Homer’s Iliad It was a battle of Homeric proportions fought with Lilliputian resources. Zuckerberg’s $100 Million Lesson 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Oh they’re still here, as fascinating, offbeat and abstruse as ever, but restricted to momentary exposition instead of Homeric interruption. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Is the Best Ever 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z “Fifty years ago, you would find nice attributions to Homeric heroes, but today’s academics are very careful in their Homeric attributions,” he said. A Grecian Artifact Evokes Tales From the ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z In fact, one of my most vivid childhood memories involved a golf-course breakdown of Homeric proportions. What is the biggest emotional meltdown or blow-up you've witnessed on a golf course?: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z I’ve called it in the past a “Homeric” evening of theater because it’s me, in a pool of firelight, with the audience gathered around the fire, at a shamanic level. Julian Sands celebrates Harold Pinter’s poetry in one-man show 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Vinci’s idea was that the descriptions in the Homeric poems didn’t match the geography of the Mediterranean. Karl Ove Knausgaard Travels Through America 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z The story of the Nárvaez expedition reads like Homeric myth complete with omens. Book review: ‘Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca:American Trailblazer,’ by Robin Varnum The seal stone’s possible relevance to the Homeric epics is intriguing but elusive. A Grecian Artifact Evokes Tales From the ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z His funeral, at the Naval Academy Chapel, in Annapolis, was Homeric in scale, and the Corps named buildings and awards after him. Pictures from My War 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Pop a beer bottle, Mr. Cram explained, and you heard that famous groaning voice saying, “Mmm, beer” then a pouring sound, then gulping, then a Homeric “woo-hoo!” First, Invent the Gadget. Then Take It to Hollywood. 2014-07-12T04:00:00Z The result is a fairly monotonous tune, which probably explains why the tradition of Homeric recitation without melody emerged from what was originally a sung composition. How did ancient Greek music really sound? 2013-10-22T23:41:13Z Walter White’s Homeric Values In speaking with these scholars, we talked about two Homeric values that seem to drive Walt in particular. The Epic Of Heisenberg: Breaking Bad's Homeric Values 2013-09-28T20:58:00Z The Homeric Greeks believed in fate, rather than freedom. What can a brain scan tell us about free will? 2013-08-13T07:12:56Z It’s used in Homeric Greek translation as the word for pyknos, which means “tightly arrayed”, but why “serried”? Sportsfriends: A Very Different Local, Social and Mobile 2012-12-08T17:04:09Z Well, they just kept on playing and playing, hitting serve after serve, forehand after forehand and backhand after backhand until Mahut finally cracked, Isner winning the final set of their Homeric match at Wimbledon 70-68. The Joy of Six: late sporting dramas 2012-11-23T10:45:55Z By comparison, one suspects Scottish fans will cherish their Homeric but ill-fated efforts to get to Euro 2008 far longer. Self-sabotage and self-hate: Scotland's relationship with success 2012-11-14T09:20:33Z Rogers also noted that Walt’s focus on his own glory also expose some of the negative elements of kleos in the Homeric epics. The Epic Of Heisenberg: Breaking Bad's Homeric Values 2013-09-28T20:58:00Z As Stuart grandly declares, in Homeric tones, “I sing of the spirit that dwells in the bright gray blade.” Essay: When Poetry Was an Olympic Event 2012-08-11T17:33:14Z It is impossible to adopt the view that the Homeric poets turned the rude shepherd-god of Arcadia into a messenger, in order to provide him with a place in the Olympian circle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z There is something patriarchal and Homeric in the lives of these men, which read like the poetic legends in which nations have commemorated the history of their first establishment. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z It is owing to this, in part, that the heroic couplet is so often required to give, in translation, the full value of a single Homeric hexameter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The event seems to warrant a more Homeric wealth of language than I can compass, but it would be hard not to drop into semi-stately—not to say semi-Homeric and wholly plagiaristic—diction over it. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z There he can reconstruct the splendour of that Minoan age to which Homeric poems look back, as the Germanic epics looked back to Rome or Verona. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z The “Homeric” Hymn to Hermes explains these minor gifts of prophecy as delegated by Apollo, who alone knew the mind of Zeus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The Homeric mythology, as well as the Homeric language, has surely its antecedents. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z It is to be noted, however, that those Elizabethans who, like Chapman, Warner and Drayton, aimed at producing a warlike and Homeric effect, did so in shambling fourteen-syllable couplets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The low, angry murmuring suddenly ceased, and a great wave of Homeric laughter rolled over the crowd. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z The strongest case against the Periclean Greeks, and one which marks their parentage most clearly from their Homeric ancestors, is the treatment of their old men. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z This is supported by the myth of his fall from heaven, and by the fact that, according to the Homeric tradition, his father was Zeus, the heaven-god. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z But, although there is no reason to doubt the existence of a family of “Homeridae,” it is far from certain that they had anything to do with Homeric poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Numerous quotations and fragments still exist, chiefly in the Homeric scholiasts and Stephanus of Byzantium. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Nevertheless, the motionless figure, looming Homeric through the fog, with gleams of wet light reflected from the steel about it, dwelt long in her mind. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z The Homeric poems represent Aphrodite as hastening to her altar at Paphos in Cyprus. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z In epic poetry Hephaestus is rather a comic figure, and his limping gait provokes “Homeric laughter” among the gods. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z And although we hear of “descendants of Creophylus” as in possession of the Homeric poems, there is no similar story about descendants of Homer himself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z In Homeric times surgery was the institution of medicine, and kings con61cerned themselves with the practice of it. Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 2012-02-22T03:00:23.620Z In the first instance, the river-spirit is accurately the Homeric god, only Homer would have believed in it,—Scott did not; at least not altogether. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z The Homeric poems often mention amber, which, worked into ornaments, Phenician ships brought to the Greeks. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z The Homeric Hymn to Apollo evidently combines two different versions, one of the approach of Apollo from the north by land, and the other of the introduction of his votaries from Crete. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z It has been thought indeed that the Homeric dialect was a mixed one, mainly Ionic, but containing Aeolic and even Doric forms; this, however, is a mistaken view of the processes of language. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z But to our astonishment we find the higher social feelings toward women so weak that the Athenian tragic poets seem quite unable to appreciate, or even to understand, the more delicate features in Homeric characters. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z The line is given “as Homer quoted by Longinus,” and as if it were a Homeric line, but it is not a hexameter at all. The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z The Homeric poems speak of Sidon as "rich in brass," and "skilful;" they tell us of large beaten bowls of brass and silver of Sidonian workmanship, "rich in invention." The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z The Homeric outlines are in each case brilliantly distinct, while they leave to the reader a certain liberty of private conception, and he can fill them in so as to satisfy his own ideal. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z There are doubtless many Homeric forms which were unknown to the later Ionic and Attic, and which are found in Aeolic or other dialects. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z It is the land of the Chalybians of which the Homeric poems speak, when they mention the city of Alybe—"where is the birth of silver." The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z At that time a great many scholars, following the initiative of Wolf and the German separatist critics, declared even that the Homeric poems were due to more than one mind. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z The trade, however, with the Hellenes continued as before, in lively vigour, so far as the Homeric descriptions can be accepted as evidence. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z At Athens there was a special ordinance that the Homeric poems should be recited once every fourth year at the great Panathenaic festival. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z Homeric Question.—The critical study of Homer began in Greece almost with the beginning of prose writing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z As god of the country and protector of the coast, the Homeric poems give to Apollo the foremost place among the deities who defend Troy. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z It did not spring from the people, but the Christian hymns were proper folk poetry, the Bible of the people—their Homeric poems. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Along with these notices in the Homeric poems on the trade of the Phenicians, an account has also come down to us from an Eastern source. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z But we do believe that the knowledge of the Homeric poems, introduced at the right time and in the right way, will contribute to such a result. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z The Thebaid of Antimachus, however, was not popular, and seems to have been a great storehouse of mythological learning rather than a poem of the Homeric school. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Even in the Homeric poems we find mention of this stone, and the legend connected with it by the Greek colonists. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z They fought—and first one three thousand, then another three thousand friendly troops joined in, so the Homeric combat ended in their favour, and Prashad himself was employed as a spy. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z In the Homeric poems Europa, the daughter of Phœnix, bears Minos to Zeus. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z In one fragment he compares, in terms neither delicate nor complimentary, the pretensions to beauty of the Roman ladies of his time with those of the Homeric heroines. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z In this way the great Alexandrian school of Homeric criticism began with Zenodotus, the first chief of the museum, and was continued by Aristophanes and Aristarchus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Like its prototype of Homeric story, this action very naturally precipitated the kingdoms of the East and West, real and apocryphal, into a condition of chaotic warfare. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z It reminds one somewhat of the Homeric rhapsodists, or the medieval jongleurs. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Charles Brockden Brown, when only sixteen, had started no less than three of these Homeric efforts: one on the discovery of America, and one each on the conquests of Mexico and Peru. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z The manners represented in the poem are a medley of the Augustan and of the Homeric age, as seen in vague proportions, through the mists of antiquarian learning. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Again, the account of the Hipparchus is contradicted by Diogenes La�rtius, who says that Solon provided for the due recitation of the Homeric poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Did any one of the like taste come to him on business, Carteret would at once turn from business180 to some Homeric discussion. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The religion of Greece, as witness the Homeric poems, was a confederation of local cults and deities, just as Hellas was a federation of previously unconnected tribes. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z "Enthusiasm," he says, "is the characteristic of the Orphic poetry—repose that of the Homeric poems." The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z While professing to imitate the structure of the Homeric verse, he was unable to seize its finer cadences. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z If one of the two is to be rejected it must be the tenth, which is certainly the less Homeric. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Told in a hybrid of wild west tall tale and Homeric scope, it would be an injustice to try and summarize the plot, so just trust me on this one. SciFi Books For People Who Hate SciFi - A Holiday Guide 2011-12-20T17:00:45Z I do not aspire to be a Homeric hero like you, nor dream of leaping triumphantly upon the bodies of my enemies. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z The marvellous and living mythology in the glorious old poetry of Greece justly occupies here the first place, for all arts, even the plastic arts, had their origin in this first Homeric source. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z Our clothes were copied from the originals; and the imitation was so exact that our bucolic audience hailed it with Homeric peals of laughter, measuring their applause by the delight it afforded their coarse natures. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z To what local variety of Achaean Homeric Greek belonged it is idle to ask. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Extant Greek literature begins with the Homeric poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Thus has wine been made since before Homeric times. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z After this survey of ancient criticism, he proceeds to point out some of the characteristic features of the Homeric poems. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z Greeks did not look upon the Homeric gods above them as lords nor upon themselves beneath as servants, after the fashion of the Jews. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z It will be enough to observe that in the earliest elegiac poets, such as Archilochus, Tyrtaeus and Theognis, reminiscences of Homeric language and thought meet us on every page. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Nor can it be determined what exactly it was that Solon and Hipparchus respectively did for the Homeric poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The Homeric Age.—Alike in Crete and on the mainland the civilization disclosed by excavation comes abruptly to an end. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z And the death of the Tailless Tyke is positively Homeric. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z The situation was not for ordinary language; it was Homeric, over-mastering. The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z Like the French epics, Homeric poetry is indigenous, and is distinguished by this fact, and by the ease of movement and the simplicity which result from it, from poets such as Virgil, Dante and Milton. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The Homeric Hymns are a collection of pieces, some of them very short, in hexameter verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z In the Homeric system monarchy is the sole form of government; but it is monarchy already well on the way to being transformed into oligarchy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Their appearance in the Indo-European languages is comparatively late, and the Homeric poems allow us to trace their growth in Greek. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Enyalius!" he shouted, calling upon the God of War by the name that the Homeric heroes had used before Ilium; "Enyalius! The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z It seems probable therefore that the introduction of the alphabet is not later than the composition of the Homeric poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The style is that of the Ionian or Homeric epos; but there are also several traces of the Hesiodic or Boeotian school. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z They enjoyed far less freedom in 4th-century Athens than in the Homeric Age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z In the combats of the Homeric age, however, the spear, lance, or javelin played the principal part; swords were used only for fighting at close range. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The Solicitor-General, who had his share in the genial roasting, might roar with Homeric laughter. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 2011-09-30T02:00:16.737Z Thucydides, who quotes this passage to show the ancient character of the Delian festival, seems to have no doubt of the Homeric authorship of the hymn. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The early epos of Greece is represented by the Iliad and the Odyssey, Hesiod and the Homeric hymns; also by some fragments of the “Cyclic” poets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Of the non-Doric dialects the two main groups are the Aeolic and Ionic, both of which have been developed, by a gradual process of differentiation, from the language of the Homeric poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z They constructed dramas on Trojan ground; they raised on the buskin and even clasped with the sock, the feet of Homeric heroes; yet they neither imitated their Homer nor emasculated him. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z He mentioned incidentally the Homeric Kings, "who rejoiced in their hearts, counting sheaves with the sceptre," and various Roman poets. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Hence doubtless the claim of Colophon to be the native city of Homer—a claim supported in the early times of Homeric learning by the Colophonian poet and grammarian Antimachus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z According to the Spartan account, Lycurgus was the first to bring to Greece a complete copy of the Homeric poems, which he had obtained from the Creophylidae, a clan or gild of poets in Samos. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Homeric poems is clearly ripe for transmutation into oligarchy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z During these years Bobby was rather regarded as the champion of the Scottish amateurs, and the International Match would be notable, if for nothing else, for the Homeric contests between these two. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z In another work he makes the representatives of heathenism in the age of Constantine act like Homeric heroes, and those of Christianity speak “like theologians of the age of Bossuet.” Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z No legend claims for Miletus even a visit from Homer, or a share in the authorship of any Homeric poem. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Our knowledge of some of the earliest notions of the subject is derived from the Homeric poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Homeric king is more limited than that of the rulers of Cnossus, Tiryns or Mycenae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z What gave such fascination to the grand Homeric encounter between Christian and Apollyon in the valley? John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z Something half-heroic in those Homeric labours he could recognise, but what about their object? Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z If it proves anything, it proves that Cynaethus, who was a Chian and a rhapsodist, made no claim to Homeric descent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Our earliest evidence is to be sought in the Homeric poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The Homeric king is a legitimate monarch; his authority is invested with the sanctions of religion and immemorial custom. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z They would be to America what the Homeric poems were to Greece, and many long ages would not obliterate or destroy them. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z Round the frieze, at the top of the room, the subjects are taken from the four Homeric hymns. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z Let us now compare these data with the account given in the Homeric poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z In the Homeric poems it sometimes signifies a “doom” of law, a legal “right,” a “lawsuit”; while it is rarely synonymous with “justice,” as in Od. xiv. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The Homeric dead are cremated; the Mycenaean are buried. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z In Homeric religion, as considered apart from myth, in the religious thoughts of men at solemn moments of need, or dread, or prayer, Zeus holds a far other place. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z It now actually forms a part of the philological courses in many of their universities, and it has been hailed with almost as much veneration as the Homeric songs. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z The difference made by substituting the wand or branch of laurel for the lyre of the Homeric singer is a slighter one, though not without significance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Aristotle and Aristarchus seem The Homeric question. to have put Homer’s date about 1044 B.C., Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Nor is the Pelasgian part of the theory easy to reconcile with the Homeric evidence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z He answers to the Helios of the Homeric hymn to the sun, conceived as a personal being, a form which he still retains in the fancy of the Greek islanders.* Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The Homeric poems are addressed to the ear, not to the eye. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z For it is difficult to believe that the Homeric poems were ever “sung” in the strict sense of the word. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z For the course of Homeric controversy since Wolf the reader is referred to the article Homer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z For the next period, the Heroic or Homeric Age, the evidence is derived from the poems of Homer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z In the Iliad and Odyssey and the Homeric Hymn she is already the queen of desire, with the beauty and the softness of the laughter-loving dame. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z In his bearing and speech, and in a certain large simplicity of mental structure, he was the most Homeric man I ever knew. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z While the political centre of Homeric Greece is at Mycenae, the real centre is rather to be found In Boeotia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z But much that has been said of the Homeric may be said of the later classical theology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Thus it is but seldom that a vase-painter seems to have had in his mind, as he drew, passages of the Homeric poems, though these might well be familiar to him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The monster is the fosterling of Hera in the Homeric hymn, and the bane of flocks and herds. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z It was a discovery of the Phœnicians, and was known to the Greeks in the Homeric age. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The greatest difference, however, lies in the absence of hero-worship from the Homeric order of things. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z If we look now broadly over the salient facts of the Greek public and private worship of the historic period we find much in it that agrees with Homeric theology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The short stature of Odysseus is a well-known Homeric feature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The most accessible and the oldest form of the birth-myth is preserved in the Homeric hymn to the Delian Apollo, a hymn intended for recital at the Delian festival of the Ionian people. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z We cannot understand Aristotle without Plato; nay, I maintain that we cannot contemplate with a sympathetic mind the Platonic world of ideas, if we have not previously sympathised with the world of the Homeric gods. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z In this point therefore the Homeric language is manifestly older. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The moral ideas that we find in the Homeric religion are amply attested by cult-records of the later period. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z On the vases of Melos, of the 7th century, which are, however, not Ionian, but rather Dorian in character, we have a certain number of mythological scenes, battles of Homeric heroes and the like. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z In the Homeric poems the charm of "Golden Aphrodite" does not prevent the singer from hinting a quiet contempt for her softness and luxury. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Be it understood, I speak of the form of the Platonic mind, not of its logical matter; in point of doctrine, the Homeric faith was no more that of Plato than of Phidias. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z Of the poetical aorists in Attic the larger part are also Homeric. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z According to his system the earth is flat, and he adopts the Homeric theory of the ocean surrounding the world, and that of the seven climates. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z For the conditions of the Homeric age Homer is the sole authoritative witness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Dawn is somewhat akin to the Homeric Eos, the goddess of the golden throne,** she who loved a mortal and bore him away, for his beauty's sake, to dwell with the immortals. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The conceptions of Plato are of Homeric origin. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z In fact, however, the Homeric subjunctive is almost quite “regular,” though the rule which it obeys is a different one from the Attic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Herodotus, who lived in the fifth, developed the Homeric chart to three times its size. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z It is possible 443 that different strata are to be distinguished in the Homeric poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Once Indra, acting with the brutality of the Homeric Ares, charged against the car of Ushas and overthrew it.*** Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Eight yellow columns sustain its brow, and majestically, as the head of the Homeric Jupiter, its temple arches itself! Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z The Homeric uses of ἄν and κεν are different in several respects from the Attic, the general result being that the Homeric syntax is more elastic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The Homeric map of the world terminated towards the west by two fabulous countries which have given rise to many traditions among the ancients, and to many discussions among moderns. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Schliemann, the discoverer of the Mycenaean culture, unhesitatingly identified Mycenaean with Homeric. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Vedic poets, probably of a late period, made Indra as anthropomorphic as the Homeric Zeus. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Another object of his enthusiastic admiration was the Homeric character of Achilles—especially when he is described as ‘shouting in the trenches.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z This letter, however, died out earlier in Ionic than in most dialects, and there is no proof that the Homeric poems were ever written with it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The limits of the world in the Homeric cosmography were surrounded by obscurity. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Later inquirers, while refusing to discover so literal a correspondence between things Homeric and things Mycenaean, have not hesitated to accept a general correspondence between the Homeric Age and the Mycenaean. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z In the Homeric Hymn this child of Zeus and Maia shows his versatile character by stealing the oxen of Apollo, and fashioning the lyre on the day of his birth. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The hymn to Pan is especially interesting in comparison with two of Keats’s Elizabethan sources, Chapman’s translation of the Homeric hymn and Ben Jonson’s original hymns in his masque of Pan’s Anniversary. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He noticed especially the difference between the stories known to Homer and those given by later poets, and made many comparisons between Homeric and later manners, arts and institutions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z I am not concerned here with the problem of the origin of the Homeric poems. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z The Homeric heroes are Achaeans, a fair-haired Celtic race, whose home was in the Danube valley, where they had learned the use of iron. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z In all this the resemblance to the legend of the Homeric hymn to Demeter is undeniable. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Here is part of the Homeric hymn according to Chapman:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It would be impossible to give the evidence in full without writing a Homeric grammar, but a few specimens may be of interest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Quite apart from such particular facts, which teach us that the statements of Greek legend are never to be despised, there are large general conclusions which most of us think warranted by the Homeric poems. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z If the Achaeans were a conquering class ruling over a Pelasgian population, we should expect to find this difference of race a prominent feature in Homeric society. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Chapman often caught the ideas of Homer, and went on writing Homerically; at once the translator and the original. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It was professedly a fragment, and the epic of which it was described as the sole relic was spoken of disparagingly as ‘faint Homeric echoes, nothing-worth.’ The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z There were doubtless poets before Homer, as well as brave men before Agamemnon; and indeed the formation of a poetical dialect such as the Homeric must have been the work of several generations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The Homeric heroes fight with sword, spear, and bow, like the Mykenæan. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z Thus in the Homeric state we find the germs not only of the oligarchy and democracy of later Greece, but also of all the various forms of constitution known to the Western world. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z They maintained that the Homeric fables were nothing less than an allegory, shadowing forth the mysteries of nature, and veiling an arcanum of the sciences physical and moral. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Except in the concluding chapter on Assyrian Tablets and the Homeric Texts, Mr. Gladstone added little to what is to be found in one or other of his previous books. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z The result of Welcker’s labours was to show that the Homeric poems had influenced both the form and the substance of epic poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z In what relation do these facts, now reduced to some order, stand to the Homeric poems? Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z Greek world at the beginning of the 6th century B.C. presents a picture in many respects different from that of the Homeric Age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Even the great Verulam caught the infectious ingenuity; and, in “the wisdom of the ancients,” explains everything with the skill of a great Homeric scholiast. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Your observation on my metre, which has great force, cuts, I think, deep into the matter—into the principles of Homeric translation. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z Some parts of the Iliad, moreover, seemed to him to be older than the poem on the wrath of Achilles; and thus in addition to the “Homeric” and “post-Homeric” matter he distinguished a “pre-Homeric” element. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Sir George Cornewall Lewis, whose whole life was spent in framing sceptical arguments against early history, is found to accept the unity of authorship and unity of design of the Homeric poems. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z Both the Homeric and the archaeological evidence seem to point to the same conclusion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Among these poets stood He, in whose fire the Greek of Homer burned clear in his Homeric English. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z His latest work on the subject was the ‘Landmarks of Homeric Study, together with an Essay on the Points of Contact between the Assyrian Tablets and the Homeric Text,’ which appeared in 1890. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z Not a Homeric hero in the imminence of a personal encounter ever did so fine bragging. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z The seafaring too of the Homeric Greeks does not seem to me at all what we may infer the Mycenæan seafaring to have been. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z There is no consciousness in the Homeric poems of a distinction of race between the governing and the subject classes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Here we discover the ornamental artist as in the Homeric period. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It was entitled ‘Studies of Homer and the Homeric Age,’ and consisted of three large volumes. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z He showed me his poem, which was taken from the superb Homeric hymn to Demeter. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z Some advanced kinds of handicraft, such as the inlaying of metals, which have been brought to light in Mycenæan work, are specially prominent in the Homeric poems. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z No such question can be raised as to the Homeric Age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Never was banquet without poet in the Homeric times. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Lenette, however, would have preferred to have washed, cooked, and served the meats with her own unassisted hands, like a true Homeric or Carlovingian princess. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z In the Homeric simplicity of the cow camps, where the primitive emotions still rule, any soul-stirring which cannot find its expression in curses is pretty sure to seek the level of laughter. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z Every recent history of Greece has a chapter on the Homeric poems from this point of view—none of them fuller or better than the chapters of Grote. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z And a monarchy such as is depicted in the Homeric society. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Some knowledge these writers had of the mythological, and even the Homeric and Virgilian fictions, for they often gave duplicates of the classical fables of antiquity. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z But they are knaves, these headsmen and partners of the censors; they wake up neither readers nor princes, but only Homeric sleepers. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z "Beg pahdon?" replied Bill, holding his hand behind his ear; and then there was a rumble of Homeric laughter that left Bowles hot with shame. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z There is another point alleged for the artificiality of the Homeric poems which has not any greater weight. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z Woman in Homeric society enjoys a greater freedom, and receives greater respect, than in the Athens of Sophocles and Pericles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z A great poet may not be the less Homeric because he has never read Homer. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z A prolonged burst of Homeric laughter drowned Polzunkov's words in guffaws. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z The gallant Irish officers, whose Homeric exploits he loved to celebrate, held commissions in the British army. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z The Homeric poems therefore mainly natural; This it is which makes any systematic artificiality to my mind most improbable. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z Among the most difficult of the literary dialects to trace is the earliest—the Homeric dialect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z If there was anything Homeric about her -- and come to think of it, I believe there was -- it was the serene pitilessness with which she dispensed their doom. 2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts 2011-04-18T19:53:00Z The Hades in which he was called upon to believe was more dreary even than the Hades of the Homeric Greeks. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The Homeric heroes are scarcely less firmly and subtly differentiated than his champions of chivalry. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The poets knew all about fishing, for it appears in a simile, and yet in no case does fish, the great delicacy of Attic days, appear upon a Homeric table. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z Even those comedies which were written in the same taste with his, came to be termed Fabulæ Plautinæ, in the same way as we still speak of Æsopian fable, and Homeric verse. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z How Homeric it makes language to think in German. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z But if there is any connection between the Homeric passage and the Egyptian symbol, it would show only that the symbol had been borrowed by the Greek poet. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Nothing could be further removed in sentiment from the heroism of the Homeric age or closer to the customs of a corrupt Italian city than this poem. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z But still if Lycurgus indeed promoted the knowledge of the Homeric poems, why did he and Iphitus found a contest without the least resemblance to the heroic models? Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z The bivouackers, inside the courtyard and without, having commenced their Homeric repast, paid little heed to an incident so slight and of such common occurrence. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z A smoke follows the Homeric repast, for all American Indians are addicted to the use of the nicotian weed. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Then it was a perfect old English inn, with a kitchen whose Homeric breadth and bright cheerfulness made it a constant picture. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Professing, on his title-page, to imitate Cervantes, Fielding set out to cover Pamela with Homeric ridicule by transferring the heroine’s embarrassments to a hero, supposed to be her brother. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z But Euripides was only following the regular Homeric story, in which Athena had been the great enemy of Troy, and the unscrupulous friend of the Greeks. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z These two were of bronze, the round ones decorated in Homeric fashion with concentric circles of ornament, the motives being geometric patterns or an animal repeated endlessly. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The major bursts into Homeric laughter, in which Zdena, whose overstrained nerves dispose her for tears as well as laughter, joins. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z Then, displaying the appetite of a Homeric warrior, he caused pea-sausages and pints of beer to disappear into his mouth as into a vacuum. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z Certain it is, however, that Milton wrote after the Homeric method, and did not exert himself chiefly in strewing his text with luminous propositions. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z In many ways Macedonia must have been like a great fragment of that Homeric or heroic age from which he had drawn most of his stories. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The inhabitants of Ethiopia, partly perhaps owing to their honourable mention in the Homeric poems, attracted the attention of many Greek researchers, from Democritus onwards. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Then, in spite of the lowering brow of the host, the aristocrats present burst into Homeric laughter. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z In what precedes I have made no reference to the Homeric poems, and the omission may be thought strange. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z Hence, the Homeric fable that Circe transformed men into beasts. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z The younger children are puzzled and confused by the details of a Homeric simile. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z In the Homeric poems the Aethiopes are the furthest of mankind both eastward and westward; the gods go to their banquets and probably the Sun sets in their country. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Ennius prided himself especially on being the first to form the strong speech of Latium into the mould of the Homeric hexameter in place of the old Saturnian metre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Can we then wonder at the enthusiastic language of the Homeric Hymn,81 of Pindar,82 of Sophocles,83 of Aristophanes,84 of Plato,85 of Isocrates,86 of Chrysippus87? Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Now scholars are all agreed that the authors of the Homeric poems had many predecessors in the art of composing poetry for many ages back down into legendary times. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Already when the Homeric poems were made, the shrine of Apollo at Delphos was the scene of an old and complicated ritual. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z The earliest mention of Europe is in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, but there Europe is not the name of a continent, but is opposed to the Peloponnesus and the islands of the Aegean. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The great man was smiling benignly at his thoughts, and smoking a big cigar with an air of Homeric enjoyment. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z The burial is indeed quite different from any such ceremony described in the Homeric poems. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Any one who has read Tom Jones receives the impression that the long similes Fielding introduced in the Homeric manner were written half in jest of Homer, his master. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z But no elementary child will make a Homeric, or indeed any simile, except as a tour de force. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z The struggle was Homeric, as Balwant Singh, the muscles on his back rising in ridges, strove to conquer the black god. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z "Don't dare to offer me a word, either of you," said the Great Lady, in a whisper of Homeric truculence. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z As there is no room in Greek history for such a civilization posterior to the Homeric poems, it follows that the latter must describe a civilization considerably later than that we have found at Mycenæ. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z The playwright has evidently chosen a more primitive and romantic version of the story; the Homeric reviser has, as usual, cut out what might seem ridiculous. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z Engelmann and Anderson's Atlas of the Homeric Poems seems to help and interest the children, though there is constant danger that the archaic forms will seem merely ludicrous to many of them. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z Spellbound by the atmosphere of this Homeric duel, the sahibs had crouched, motionless, scarcely breathing, held by intense interest. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z They were told with an immense gusto, and he led the laughter himself with a whole-heartedness which was quite Homeric. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z To the Homeric Greeks death was a dark unavoidable fate, without hope and without reward. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z It may be remarked that the play here uses a fairly common Homeric phrase in a sense which the scholars of our tradition knew but rejected. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z Besides, the Greek national spirit, the spirit of the characteristic Greek period, was not Homeric, and the literature of the characteristic Greek period would never do for the elementary children. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z Juno and Venus are active throughout, as of old in the Homeric story, each in the interest of her own favorite. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z In the Homeric poems oxen are distinctly and repeatedly mentioned as the commodity in terms of which other objects are valued. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z For boxing was, even from Homeric times, a very dangerous and bloody amusement, in which the vanquished were always severely punished. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Thus the Eleusinian Mysteries became the chief agent in the conversion of the Greek world from the Homeric view of Hades to a more hopeful belief as to man's state after death. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites 2011-01-28T03:00:23.447Z In the case of Greek literature one cannot unreservedly demur because the Homeric poems are never bad for the children. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z It had been a Homeric effort, but the late-season form was a harbinger: they were relegated the season after. The Joy of Six: Newly promoted success stories 2011-01-21T10:59:50Z Coined money was clearly unknown in the Homeric times, and it was known in the time of Lycurgus. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z Not a Homeric laugh, of course, stifled laughter maybe, a tittering rather than a hearty laugh, a catching laugh which the enemy might have happened to overhear, a real laugh all the same. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The earliest mention of the Temple of Demeter at Eleusis occurs in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, which has already been mentioned. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites 2011-01-28T03:00:23.447Z The Homeric reputation, the first great literary cant. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z “Me myself,” as here, seems the equivalent of the Homeric “οὔτις.” Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z The banquet, if not exactly choice, was certainly copious, and it reminded one more of the grand Homeric feasts than the modern dinner-parties. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The old Homeric hymn tells how "Wonder strange possessed The everlasting gods that shape to see, Shaking a javelin keen, impetuously Rush from the crest of �gis-bearing Jove." Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z This was not written by Homer, but by some poet versed in Homeric lore, and its probable date is about 600 B.C. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites 2011-01-28T03:00:23.447Z Thus, in the Homeric poems, we find indications that cattle served as a measure of values, even though payments were made in gold. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z The anthropomorphism of the story is as vivid as in those Homeric scenes in which gods and men contend with one another in battle. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z The human element has an Ionian form and a Homeric hue. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z An old Homeric hymn tells of a sly prank he played upon Apollo, when he was a mere baby, stealing the herds of Admetus which Apollo was keeping. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z For United's neighbours, the quest to be officially recognised as the fourth best team in a league of 20 has assumed Homeric proportions. Slick Manchester City set up Champions League decider with Tottenham 2010-05-01T20:12:00Z The newspaper is mocking the prime minister for saying that Greeks were facing a Homeric Odyssey when he announced last week that the country was triggering the international financial package. Odyssey ahead 2010-04-28T16:03:00Z The Homeric poems scarcely mention Attica, and the legends, though numerous, are rarely of direct historical value. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Those were glorious days, indeed, the Homeric age of zatrikiological worthies! The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion As classic literature is the best interpreter of Greek sculpture, the text draws freely from such original sources as the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Homeric hymns, and Ovid's Metamorphoses. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z But a closer examination of its whole texture brings to light beneath the more conspicuous figures of the Homeric mythology, the presence of other modes of religious belief, feeling, and practice. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil But there is no trace of Artemis as such in the epic period, and the Homeric hymn knows nothing of her identification with Selene. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" But no effort or ecstasy of artistic fancy, in form or colour, can ever follow the track of the Homeric imagination in its majesty and infinite variety of expression. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius This sceptical conclusion, the contrary of that drawn by Leibnitz from the harmony of thought and style pervading the works, shows us that the Homeric question has been followed by the Aristotelian question. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" In the Irish bardic literature, as in the Homeric epics, chastity formed no part of the masculine ideal either for gods or men. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race It was the only subject, of national significance, connected with the Homeric cycle of events. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The hoplite’s pike, about 8 ft. long, unlike the Homeric weapon, was hardly ever thrown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The intractable roughness of barbarian names, which, as Pliny suggests, might have been eluded by a Homeric licence in quantity, was probably not the only difficulty of Caninius. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius They were far more democratic than the Greeks of Homeric time. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical This voyage, which is not mentioned in the Homeric legend, is described by Virgil in his �neid. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli The interest which he thus imparts to his narrative is different from, and inferior to, that attaching to the original representation in the Homeric poems. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The Homeric and later conception of Artemis, though by no means the original one, may be noticed first. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Mr. Grote corroborates this decision by the striking instance of the diversity of existing opinions concerning the Homeric Poems. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent In the legend, as set forth in the Homeric hymn to Apollo and the ode of Callimachus to Delos, Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" In the Homeric poems she is the personification of the Sea, and her marriage to Poseidon is alluded to in a number of scenes depicted on ancient monuments. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli After this digression the action proceeds according to Homeric precedents. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil It must be admitted that the problem of pre-Homeric armour and Homeric armour must always be largely a matter of inference, based on a comparative study of the evidence literary and archaeological. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The laws of Lycurgus were doubtless reduced into epic or elegiac verse, possibly by Terpander himself, who was likewise an epic poet, and composed προοίμια as introductions to the Homeric poems. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 In the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite she is described as ruling over all living things on earth, in the air, and in the water, even the gods being subject to her influence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" "And now we come to the question of the Homeric gate—the Homeric gate, Fane, when you can condescend to our level," said Mr. Cray severely. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Thus the original motive of the Virgilian epic was essentially different from that of the Homeric poems. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil This theory would separate the Homeric from the Mycenaean altogether, and is part of a much more comprehensive ethnological hypothesis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The investigation concerning the revenue of the kings is not in itself so important as it is rendered interesting by the parallel with the same office in the Homeric age. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 And it is evident that the chariots and darts of the Homeric heroes could never have prevailed against the charge of a deep and compact body armed with long lances. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 It was probably like the old Homeric council, except that its constitution did not depend on a birth qualification, but on a high census. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Yet all feel that the Aeneid is much inferior to the Homeric poems in natural human interest, as it is much inferior in reflective interest to the greatest extant dramas of Aeschylus and Sophocles. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Greek, Historical.—The equipment does not differ generically from that described in the Homeric poems, except when we come to the reforms of the Macedonians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Arbitrators were also employed at Sparta for the decision of private cases, as in the Homeric time;1031 but whether they were publicly appointed, as in Athens, is not known. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 Concerning the numerous differences between the catalogue and the genuine Homeric traditions, see the author's History of the Literature of ancient Greece, ch. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 Conceive a defence of boycotting and bring it oratorically, in an airy and genial way, within a measurable distance of legality, and back it up if possible with some biblical and Homeric analogies. Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887 There is no trace in Virgil of that keen enjoyment of personal adventure and bodily activity which is present in every page of the Homeric poems. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Homeric armies were tribal levies of foot, armed with spear, sword, bow, &c., and commanded by the chiefs in their war-chariots. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" "The Liberals," exclaimed a young member, with a movement of Homeric indignation, "may be appreciated in Russia, but they are not Englishmen." John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced In the first, a Spartan king—after it had been thought proper never to send out two together—was commander-in-chief, in whose powers there were many remains of the authority of the ancient Homeric princes. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 This is a metrical life of the Cid Ruy Diaz, written in a barbarous style and with the rudest inequality of measure, but with a truly Homeric warmth and vivacity of delineation. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 But to a Roman of the time of Augustus the life of the Homeric age must have appeared almost as remote as it does to us. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil According to another hypothesis, the Homeric poems are true descriptions of a single age, or, in other words, the weapons of the Homeric age were far more diverse and elaborate than is supposed by Reichel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" They had not come to blows yet; their duel was purely Homeric. A Bed of Roses The birth of Apollo, being an epoch in mythology, was without doubt celebrated in ancient hymns, whose simplicity presented a striking contrast to the higher polish of the Homeric poems. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 In Judges and Joshua, the “Homeric” books of the Old Testament, the Hebrews appear as a passionately fierce and cruel people. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" An image of this Homeric life Virgil has to reproduce from the midst of a state of society utterly unlike it. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil His paganism and his "cult of form," as also his Homeric power of description and of color, are seen in 'The Ox' and in 'To Aurora.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII An Homeric hero who cuts up swine and cooks and roasts them, remains a hero for all, and Hansei is as good as any of them, although it be not with the sword. On the Heights A Novel When we had triumphantly achieved this Homeric repast, we offered to the grand chief a scarf of blessing, and remounted our horses. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 In some of the English colonies Homeric hospitality still prevails, but by degrees the station-house or some refuge is established in the towns as they grow more populous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" The art of Virgil is thus powerless to produce a true image of the life and manners of the Homeric age. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil For these I give thee a Nuno, fierce in fight, who for his King and Country freely bled; an Egas and a Fuas; fain I might for them my lay with harp Homeric wed! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Homeric gods, like Red Indian, Thlinkeet, or Australian gods, can assume the shapes of birds. Custom and Myth New Edition From a great poet, the most Homeric of modern poets—what a judgment on the Iliad! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 Among the Homeric Greeks, this attendance had developed to a complete public meeting. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State Neither is it necessary here to go back into the vexed and probably insoluble question of the genesis of the Homeric poems. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Long time, like Homeric heroes, he sits tossing thought hither and thither. Helena Brett's Career These and other early features of religion occur mainly in Greece after the Homeric age. Custom and Myth New Edition In his unexaggerated feats of war, he eclipsed the Homeric heroes, and rivalled the incredible exploits of Charlemagne and his peers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 In doing so he allies by his theme his own to the Homeric Epos. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 He was to tempt the master with the wealth of the world, but what could he give the man to replace his Homeric comfort? The Garden of Eden On one occasion he warns against the dangers of youth, and says that the ears must be stopped, not, as in the Homeric story, by wax, but "by the precepts of philosophy." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 It may be Florida, as Florida was when first discovered; it may be Zululand, or West Africa, or ancient Rome, or Homeric Greece, or Palestine. Custom and Myth New Edition Each reading that was adopted by Zenodotus or Aristarchus had to be defended, and this could only be done by establishing general rules on the grammar of the Homeric poems. Lectures on The Science of Language In truth, it was not easy, with fights of the Homeric ages, to do otherwise. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 This is Homerically plentiful, and varied sufficiently to suit the tastes of all such as are accustomed to the vicissitudes of travelling. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. This Trojan cup was found at a depth of 50 ft. below the present surface and about 18 ft. below the stratum of what Schliemann claimed to be the Homeric Troy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Mr. R. Brown, the learned and industrious author of The Great Dionysiak Myth, has investigated the traditions about the Homeric moly. Custom and Myth New Edition When the hour of parting approaches, precious gifts are exchanged in truly Homeric fashion as a symbol of intimate connection and eternal friendship. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) This prediction was like the prayers of the Homeric heroes— "One half the gods dispersed in empty air." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 They did very well together, and on parting they exchanged presents in Homeric fashion, she loading him with baskets of fruit, he giving a box in return full of pins and needles, knives and scissors. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses She undeceived me on this head, showing resources of abusive import that would have done credit to a Homeric hero. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance The casting of lots, sortilege, was common in classical antiquity; the Homeric heroes prayed to the gods when they cast lots in Agamemnon’s leather cap, and Mopsus divined with sacred lots when the Argonauts embarked. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" In the next act we have Maître Pathelin at his fireside with his wife, to whom he relates his trick and its projected sequel, and who greets them with Homeric laughter. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. Yet how shall rhyme allow that utmost freedom and range in the flow of the thought which marks the now majestically, now impetuously sweeping, Homeric river? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 It is not quite; it has all the grace that Zola lacked in La Terre, but if the beauty is anything it is Virgilian, not Homeric. A Novelist on Novels It was something of a Homeric strife, as these young heroes came together. A Frontier Mystery Scott, the lexicographer, sends him Greek epigrams on events too fugitive to be now worth recalling—discusses Homeric points, and while not surrendering at discretion, admits them worthy of much consideration. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) She wrote a panegyric on the Persian victories of Theodosius; and there is extant from her pen a cento of Homeric verse treating the life and miracles of Christ. Women of Early Christianity Such are the salient features of the Homeric polity. Greek Women We both answered, that neither of us would succeed, as neither of us had the Homeric genius. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Had it formed a distinct feature of the society depicted in the Homeric poems, there is no reason to suppose that their authors would have abstained from delineating it. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion Letters abound and over-abound on that most movable of topics—“the present state of the Homeric controversy.” The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) Here was one of the chief homes of the Homeric tradition; hence in the person of Callinus the Greek elegy is reputed to have had its origin, and in the person of Hipponax the satire. St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition Marriage among the Homeric Greeks had primarily two distinct objects in view: the preservation of a pure line of descent, and the protection of the property rights of the family. Greek Women He comes to a negative conclusion, and applies this reasoning to the Homeric problem. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" The first fact which the student has to notice is that in the Homeric poems a modern reader finds no trace of this passion. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion The Homeric Greeks rejoiced in life like youths whom everything pleases. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance Some one having pronounced Tennyson eminently Homeric, Mr. Arnold discusses the relation of the English idyllic to the Ionian epic poet, and finds him at the opposite pole in respect of simplicity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 Thus Homer and the Homeric Age are inextricably entwined about the name of Helen. Greek Women But this Homeric competition was endangered by disquieting news brought to the island by the fishermen. A Prince of Good Fellows Our Attic authorities certainly regarded the Homeric poems as canonical books, decisive for the culture of the first stage of Hellenic history. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion |
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