By their willing participation in this drama, Anzac troops were transformed from crude colonials to Homeric heroes. |
The schoolboys of classical Athens memorized the Homeric passages that taught the classical virtues. |
But they are not on the field or trying to absorb some of the Homeric playbooks around the league. |
We are stuck with the world we have lost, as news of the latest Homeric disaster emerges from the battlefronts of Mesopotamia. |
Courage was the defining virtue of the Homeric hero, and Aristotle evidently loved heroic courage above all. |
In the second chapter, the author applies the meaning attributed to the agent nouns to the interpretation of the Homeric texts. |