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What does Homeric mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Homeric? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Resembling or relating to the epic poetry of Homer.
  2. Of or pertaining to Greece during the Bronze Age, as described in Homer's works.
  3. Fit to be immortalized in poetry by Homer; epic, heroic.
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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.

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