The Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo makes the monster Typhaon the offspring of archaic Hera in her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous version of Hephaestus, and whelped in a cave in Cilicia.

It occurs once in Greek mythology, and is of Homeric form.

Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets.

In the alternative account of the origin of Typhon ( Typhoeus ), the Homeric Hymn to Apollo makes the monster Typhaon at Delphi a son of archaic Hera in her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous version of Hephaestus or Mars, and whelped in a cave in Cilicia and confined there in the enigmatic Arima, or land of the Arimoi, en Arimois ( Iliad, ii.

The ancient Greeks regarded the beard as a badge or sign of virility ; in the Homeric epics it had almost sanctified significance, so that a common form of entreaty was to touch the beard of the person addressed.

Perseus might be from the ancient Greek verb, " πέρθειν " ( perthein ), “ to waste, ravage, sack, destroy ”, some form of which appears in Homeric epithets.

* Homeric Greek, a form of Ancient Greek employed by Homer

The term Proteus signifies changeability of form, as personified in the Homeric poems in Proteus, " the old man of the sea ," who tends the sealflocks of Poseidon and has the gift of endless transformation.

“ The sophist was to revive the antique purer form of religion and to encourage the cults of the heroes and Homeric gods .”

The English name Ptolemy comes from the Ancient Greek name Πτολεμαῖος ( Ptolemaios ), " warlike ", an adjective from πτόλεμος ( ptólemos ), a Homeric form of πόλεμος ( pólemos ), " war ".

Later Latin has-î as the ending for this case, but by comparison with Linear B and Homeric Greek and other languages it becomes clear that-osio is a far earlier form.

's poetry from 1940 onwards takes the form of long sequences, and her Helen in Egypt, written during the 1950s, covers much of the same Homeric ground as The Cantos ( but from a feminist perspective ), and the three sequences that make up Hermetic Definition ( 1972 ) include direct quotations from Pound's poem.

Homeric Greek is the form of the Greek language that was used by Homer in the Iliad and Odyssey.

* In the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess uses " ambrosian oil " as perfume, " divinely sweet, and made fragrant for her sake.

She is most often associated with her Homeric epithet " rosy-fingered " ( rhododactylos ), but Homer also calls her Eos Erigeneia:

Persephone was gathering flowers with Artemis and Athena, the Homeric hymn says — or Leucippe, or Oceanids — in a field when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth.

Part of the reason for her disappearance from the standard canon was the predominance of Attic and Homeric Greek as the languages required to be studied.

In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, King Celeus is said to have been one of the first people to learn the secret rites and mysteries of her cult.

In Homeric legend, Iphigeneia was to be sacrificed by her father Agamemnon for success in the Trojan War.

In Ovid's retelling, placed in the mouth of the aged Homeric hero Nestor, Caenis, the daughter of Elatus ( a Lapith chieftain ) and Hippea, was raped by Neptune, who then fulfilled her request to be changed into a man so that she could never be raped again ; he also made Caenis invulnerable to weaponry.

In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, now thought to have been composed in 522 BCE during Classical times, a small detail is provided regarding Apollo's combat with the serpent, in some sections identified as the deadly Drakaina, or her parent.

Once paired in later myths with her Titan brother Hyperion as her husband, " mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far-shining one " of the Homeric Hymn to Helios, was said to be the mother of Helios ( the Sun ), Selene ( the Moon ), and Eos ( the Dawn ).

On her way to Jerusalem, she stopped in Antioch, where " she delivered an encomium of Antioch before the senate of the city, casting it in Homeric hexameters.

Her most studied piece of literature is her Homeric cento, which has been analyzed recently by a few modern scholars, such as Mark Usher and Brian Sower.

The Homeric centos that Eudocia wrote is her most popular and most analyzed poem by modern scholars because Homer was a popular choice to write a centos on.

She wrote an epic poem combining her classical Athens educational background by doing a Homeric centos, but adding stories from the book of Genesis and the New Testament stories of the life of Jesus Christ.

Mark Usher analyzed this poem as a means to understand why Eudocia chose to use Homeric themes as a mean to express her biblical interpretations.

Whenever and wherever Eudocia needed to express greatness, pain, truthfulness, deceit, beauty, suffering, mourning, recognition, understanding, fear, or astonishment, there was an apt Homeric line or passage ready in her memory to be recalled.

" Eudocia's Homeric poetry is essential to understanding her as a Christian woman in early Byzantine Empire, and understanding her role as empress.

These included Lot's Wife ( 1878 ), Artemis and her Hound ( 1880 plaster, 1882 marble ), the Homeric bowman Teucer ( 1881 plaster, 1882 bronze ), and the Mower ( 1884 plaster, 1894 bronze ), arguably the first life-size freestanding statue of a contemporary laborer in 19th-century sculpture.

According to Etymologicum Magnum her name means καλύπτουσα το διανοούμενον, i. e. " concealing the knowledge ", which combined with the Homeric epithet δολόεσσα, meaning subtle or wily, justifies the hermetic character of Calypso and her island.

The archaic ( Homeric ) pronunciation of the name was approximately.

The Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo recalled that the ancient name of this site had been Krisa.

The Homeric name of the oracle is Pytho ( Πυθώ ).

For example, the name Delphi and its associated deity, Apollon Delphinios, are explained in the Homeric Hymn which tells of how Apollo carried Cretans over the sea in the shape of a dolphin () to make them his priests.

An eponymous bardic guild, known as the Homeridae ( sons of Homer ), or Homeristae (' Homerizers ') appears to have existed there, tracing descent from an ancestor of that name, or upholding their function as rhapsodes or " lay-stitchers " specialising in the recitation of Homeric poetry.

The earliest attested occurrence of the name, written in Linear B, is Po-se-da-o or Po-se-da-wo-ne, which correspond to Poseidaōn and Poseidawonos in Mycenean Greek ; in Homeric Greek it appears as ( Poseidaōn ); in Aeolic as ( Poteidaōn ); and in Doric as ( Poteidan ), ( Poteidaōn ), and ( Poteidas ).

That Poseidon and Erechtheus were two names at Athens for the same figure ( see below ) was demonstrated in the cult at the Erechtheum, where there was a single altar, a single priest and sacrifices were dedicated to Poseidon erechtheus, Walter Burkert observed, adding " An historian would say that a Homeric, pan-Hellenic name has been superimposed on an autochthonous, non-Greek name.

The Phoenician name of the people recalls one of the Homeric names of the Greeks, Danaoi with the-m plural, whereas the Luwian name Hiyawa probably goes back to Hittite Ahhiyā ( wa ), which is, according to most interpretations, the " Achaean ", or Mycenaean Greek, settlement in Asia Minor.

The name of the country appears in Homeric Lycia, but even more historically, in Hittite and as an Egyptian-recorded sea people, the Lukka, dwelling in the Lukka lands.

However, the Homeric questions led to his name becoming a byword for harsh and malignant criticism: in antiquity he gained the name Homeromastix, " scourge of Homer "; in the modern period, Cervantes calls Zoilus a " slanderer " in the preface to Don Quixote and there is also a ( now disused ) proverb, " Every poet has his Zoilus.

Othryoneus was from Cabesos, a Homeric site over whose location there has been disagreements since ancient times, some sources suggesting a site in the Troad self and others pointing at the very similar name of the ancient site of Kavissos, today near Feres near Evros.

The Homeric name, Iaones, used of some long-robed Greeks attacked by Hector, appears to be the same name without the *- w -.

In the sculptural frieze of the Great Altar of Pergamum ( 2nd century BC ), Dione is inscribed in the cornice directly above her name and figures in the eastern third of the north frieze, among the Olympian family of Aphrodite ; thus she is an exception to the rule detected by Erika Simon that the organizational principle according to which the gods on the Great Altar were grouped, was Hesiodic: her company in the grouping of offspring of Uranus and Gaia is Homeric, as is her possible appearance in the east pediment of the Parthenon.

The Homeric name for the Lydians was " Meiones ", cited among the allies of the Trojans during the Trojan War, and from this name " Maeonia " and " Maeonians " derive and while these Bronze Age terms have sometimes been used as alternatives for Lydia and the Lydians, nuances have also been brought between them.

The Pangaion Hills ( Greek, Ancient / Polytonic: Παγγαῖον, Modern / Monotonic: Παγγαίο ), ancient forms: Pangaeon, Pangaeum, Homeric name: Nysa are a mountain range in Greece, approximately 40 km from Kavala.

Since the Homeric root to Ptolemy includes no T the name is reconstructed as Polemy.