Example sentences for: homer

How can you use “homer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At the time Homer wrote about, clothing was a household supply, like a wine cellar full of casks or many herds of cattle and coops of chickens.

  • Gladstone, in the midst of his political career, produced a three-volume study of Homer, two long books on Church and State, and a new translation of Horace's Odes ."

  • Perhaps the original was most of the populous island's inhabitants and was deformed through some editorial glitch—but even Homer, it is said, sometimes nodded.

  • The exploits of the Mycenaeans, and their greatest leader Agamemnon, were thought to be myth, until the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann set out to find evidence of the sites of Homer’s stories of Troy and Mycenae.

  • Under his rule, commerce and the arts flourished: Attica’s wine and olive oil were shipped to Italy, Egypt, and Asia Minor in beautiful black-figure pots; the first tragedies ever written were performed at the annual festival of the wine god, Dionysus; and the standard version of Homer’s works was set down.


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