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pre-homeric — |prē+ adjective Usage: usually capitalized H Etymology: pre + homeric : antedating the Greek poet Homer or the Homeric writings * * * adj … Useful english dictionary
pre-Homeric — pre Ho•mer′ic adj … From formal English to slang
Homeric Question — The Homeric Question concerns the doubt and consequent debate over the identity of Homer, the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey , and their historicity. It has its roots in classical antiquity and the scholarship of the Hellenistic period, but… … Wikipedia
Homeric Hymns — The thirty three anonymous Homeric Hymns celebrating individual gods are a collection of ancient Greek hymns, Homeric in the sense that they employ the same epic meter dactylic hexameter as the Iliad and Odyssey , use many similar formulas and… … Wikipedia
homer — homer1 /hoh meuhr/, n. 1. Baseball. See home run. 2. See homing pigeon. v.i. 3. Baseball. to hit a home run: The catcher homered in the ninth with one on to take the game. [1865 70; HOME + ER1] homer2 … Universalium
Homer — /hoh meuhr/, n. 1. 9th century B.C. Greek epic poet: reputed author of the Iliad and Odyssey. 2. Winslow, 1836 1910, U.S. painter and illustrator. 3. a male given name. * * * flourished 9th or 8th century BC, Ionia? Greek poet, one of the… … Universalium
Catalogue of Ships — The Catalogue of Ships (νεῶν κατάλογος; neōn katalogos ) [The Catalogue of Ships is the original that supplied us our category term, catalogue .] is a passage in Book 2 of Homer s Iliad (2.494 759), which lists the contingents of the Achaean army … Wikipedia
Greek literature — Introduction body of writings in the Greek language, with a continuous history extending from the 1st millennium BC to the present day. From the beginning its writers were Greeks living not only in Greece proper but also in Asia Minor, the… … Universalium
Fabricius, Johann Albert — ▪ German scholar born Nov. 11, 1668, Leipzig died April 30, 1736 German classical scholar and the greatest of 18th century bibliographers. In 1689, after two years at the University of Leipzig, Fabricius graduated as master of… … Universalium
Ionic dialect — ▪ dialect any of several Ancient Greek dialects spoken in Euboea, in the Northern Cyclades, and from approximately 1000 BC in Asiatic Ionia, where Ionian colonists from Athens founded their cities. Attic (Attic dialect) and Ionic dialects… … Universalium
