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Homer: A home run. Other terms include: blast, dinger, dong, four-bagger, four-base knock, moon shot, tape-measure blast and tater.

Homeric Age Of Greece: Another term for the Heroic Age of Greece.

Rhapsodoi: Wandering poet-singers in the Homeric age of Greece--the equivalent of a bard in the Celtic tradition. These rhapsodoi usually sang or chanted while accompanying themselves on the lyre. Home . . . View Full Definition

Oral Formulaic: Having traits associated with works intended to be spoken aloud before an audience of listeners. Examples of oral formulaic traits are (1) repetition of words or passages, (2) use of epithet . . . View Full Definition

Omen: A miraculous sign, a natural disaster, or a disturbance in nature that reveals the will of the gods in the arena of politics or social behavior or predicts a coming change in human history. . . . View Full Definition

Solar Myth: Alvin Boyd Kuhn and Max Müller were philologists who attempted to explain the origin of a number of myths and religious practices by linking them to the animistic worship of various celesti . . . View Full Definition

Theocrasy: Not to be confused with theocracy, theocrasy is the process by which aspects of two or more separate gods in mythology comingle or blend in the form of one deity. For example, the Greek godd . . . View Full Definition

Theomarchy: Strife or warfare among the gods, especially in the sense of this activity as a subplot (overplot?) In the Homeric poems such as The Iliad.

Mythology: A system of stories about the gods, often explicitly religious in nature, that possibly were once believed to be true by a specific cultural group, but may no longer be believed as literally . . . View Full Definition

Synaesthesia: stimulus in one sensory field leads to a hallucination in another sensory field for example, a sound produces the sensation of a particular colour.