Assertion: homer | /r/CapableOf | exhaust epic genre
Facets:
value: in a word
type: MANNER
value: so completely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: If they continued to sing like their great predecessor of romantic themes, they were drawn as by a kind of magnetic attraction into the Homeric style and manner of treatment, and became mere echoes of the Homeric voice: in a word, Homer had so completely exhausted the epic genre, that after him further efforts were doomed to be merely conventional.