英语词汇homeric laughter的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Homeric laughter; Homer sometimes nods. Homeric laugh- ter is hearty, lusty laughter like that of the Gods in the greatest of epic poems. No one really knows who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey. Some authorities doubt that there was even a poet Homer, pointing out that the name means “one who puts to- gether”; instead, they ascribe his work to a number of authors. But modern scholars tend to support the traditional story that the author was the blind Greek Homer, who lived in the eighth century b.c., wandered from city to city writing his poems, and whose life remains a blank historically. Homer sometimes nods is another expression associated with the author, meaning that the best authors can make mistakes. This phrase comes from Horace’s “Ars Poetica”: “Sometimes even good old Homer nods.”

词汇	homeric laughter
词源	Homeric laughter; Homer sometimes nods. Homeric laugh- ter is hearty, lusty laughter like that of the Gods in the greatest of epic poems. No one really knows who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey. Some authorities doubt that there was even a poet Homer, pointing out that the name means “one who puts to- gether”; instead, they ascribe his work to a number of authors. But modern scholars tend to support the traditional story that the author was the blind Greek Homer, who lived in the eighth century b.c., wandered from city to city writing his poems, and whose life remains a blank historically. Homer sometimes nods is another expression associated with the author, meaning that the best authors can make mistakes. This phrase comes from Horace’s “Ars Poetica”: “Sometimes even good old Homer nods.”
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