A few days ago some friends and I were trying to come up with decent terms for common things that aren’t named in English. One such thing we wanted to name was the process whereby you come to understand or appreciate something from classical culture via pop culture.
The most obvious example is the Simpsons, with its numerous references to Greek mythology, English literature, the Bible, to say nothing of more modern popular culture. The movie Troy is another example.
We reasoned that this would be a good thing to have a term for, or at least something a little less cumbersome than ‘the process by which one comes to appreciate…‘. You get the idea.
Our candidate?
Homering.
Beautiful, isn’t it?
[image via livius.org]
You don’t think it’s getting a ‘Homeric Education’?