Sentence:  In some respects <WSD>Homeric</WSD> society is clearly an artificial literary creation. It is a natural tendency of all heroic epic to exaggerate the social status and behaviour of everyone involved, so that characters appear generally to belong to the highest social class and to possess great wealth and extraordinary abilities, in implicit contrast with the inequalities and squalor of the present age. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Resembling or relating to the epic poetry of Homer.