Entertainment / Baseball / Homer: A home run. Other terms include: blast, dinger, dong, four-bagger, four-base knock, moon shot, tape-measure blast and tater.
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Entertainment / Literature / Homeric Age Of Greece: Another term for the Heroic Age of Greece. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Epithet: A short, poetic nickname--often in the form of an adjective or adjectival phrase--attached to the normal name. Frequently, this technique allows a poet to extend a line by a few syllables in a poetic MORE
Entertainment / Literature / 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 goddess Hera c MORE
Entertainment / Literature / 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. Homer is tradi MORE
Entertainment / Literature / 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. Greek cult MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Heptameter: A line consisting of seven metrical feet. Also called septenary. MORE