king of Ithaca, back to his home after the fall of Troy. The poems are in Homeric Greek, also known as Epic Greek, a literary language which shows a mixture...

The Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanised: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns and one epigram. The...

Look up Homeric in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Homeric is an adjective meaning of, relating to, or characteristic of Homer. Homeric can also refer...

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Frédéric Dion (better known as Homeric) is a French writer, journalist and former racing jockey. He is best known for his books Oedipe de cheval (1992)...

and the origin of sacrificial practices. Myths are also preserved in the Homeric Hymns, in fragments of epic poems of the Epic Cycle, in lyric poems, in...

Homeric Greek is the form of the Greek language that was used in the Iliad, Odyssey, and Homeric Hymns. It is a literary dialect of Ancient Greek consisting...

Gods usually hear, often react to and sometimes grant human prayers. Homeric prayers, which often signal moments at which the fictional characters face...

The Homeric Question concerns the doubts and consequent debate over the identity of Homer, the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey, and their historicity...

traditionally considered fictional figures from folklore, but aspects of the Homeric story may have some basis in actual historical events or people. This,...

witness, see Iliad 1.524–527. Gantz, p. 29. Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 259. Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo, 83–86. Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes, 518–520. Gantz, pp. 29...

RMS Homeric, originally launched as Columbus, was an ocean liner built for Norddeutscher Lloyd and launched in 1913 at the F. Schichau yard in Danzig...

Homeric simile, also called an epic simile, is a detailed comparison in the form of a simile that are many lines in length. The word "Homeric", is based...

used either as a patronymic or as an other epithet. In the Homeric epics, and in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, besides being called "Helios", Hyperion is...

the two Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, among the poems of the Epic Cycle, but the term is more often used to specify the non-Homeric poems as...

this layer corresponded to Homeric Troy. Schliemann himself privately agreed that Troy VI was more likely to be the Homeric city, but he never published...

for Penelope's hand in marriage. The Odyssey was originally composed in Homeric Greek in around the 8th or 7th century BC and, by the mid-6th century BC...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The historicity of the Iliad or the Homeric Question has been a topic of scholarly debate for centuries. While researchers...

refuge. Olympia apparently also had an early tradition of twelve gods. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes (c. 500 BC) has the god Hermes divide a sacrifice of two...

the eldest and youngest daughter; this mythic inversion is found in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (700 BC). Zeus assigned Hestia a duty to feed and maintain...

διανοούμενον, romanized: kalýptousa to dianooúmenon), which – combined with the Homeric epithet δολόεσσα (dolóessa, meaning 'subtle' or 'wily') – justifies the...

Antiquity include the first Olympics, in 776 BC, and the composition of the Homeric epics the Iliad and the Odyssey. The fall of Mycenaeans in the Bronze Age...

(Greek: Περσεφόνη) is her name in the Ionic Greek of epic literature. The Homeric form of her name is Persephoneia (Περσεφονεία, Persephoneia). In other...

European literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey were likely written down in Homeric Greek, a literary mixture of Ionic Greek and other dialects, probably around...

built in 1986 at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, West Germany as Homeric for Home Lines, and their last newbuild to remain in active service. In...

the phrase for "everlasting glory" or "undying fame" can be found in the Homeric Greek as κλέος ἄφθιτον / kléos áphthiton and Vedic Sanskrit as श्रवो अक्षितम्...

The Homeric Minimum is a grand solar minimum that started about 2,800 years ago (ca. 800 BC) and lasted around 200 years. It appears to coincide with...

Homer, Iliad 1.9 and 21.502–510; Hesiod, Theogony 918–920 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo, 89–97. Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo, 98–102; Gantz p. 38. Greek women, at...

Virgil in the Latin epic Aeneid, where he seems to equate the Hesiodic and Homeric Cyclopes. From at least the fifth century BC, Cyclopes have been associated...

heavens. Hesiod called the Titans "earth-born" (chthonic), and in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, Hera prays to the Titans "who dwell beneath the earth"...