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Homer and exact
The real Homer then walks up to the unconscious man's body and remarks, " This man is my exact double!
In the " Ironic Punishment Department ," a demon has Homer strapped in the Feed-A-Matic chair ( recreated in exact detail ) forcing him to eat " all the doughnuts in the world!
Grampa tells him to confront his ursine assailant, and Homer eventually does so, contacting a hunter named Grant, who has revealed to place an electrical prod on the bear to exact his location.

Homer and dates
Oliver Taplin believes that the conclusion of modern researchers is that Homer dates to between 750 to 650 BC.
Herodotus said that Homer lived 400 years before his own day, which would place Homer about 850 BC ; but other ancient sources gave dates much closer to the Trojan War.
The ethnonym Hellenes dates back to the time of Homer.
The history of Homer City dates back to the mid-18th century, when settlers began to establish homesteads on lands previously owned by six Indian nations.
Lowering the Egyptian dates also dramatically affects the dating of dependent chronologies, such as that currently employed for the Greek " Heroic Age " of the Late Bronze Age, removing the Greek Dark Age and lowering the dates of the Trojan War to within a couple of generations of a 9th-century-BC Homer and his most famous composition: The Iliad.
This scene is parodied in the animated comedy Madagascar, the Mel Brooks film Spaceballs, the Kevin Smith film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and in two episodes of The Simpsons — one where Homer is an astronaut (" Deep Space Homer "), and another where Troy McClure appears in a Planet of the Apes musical dates Marge's sister Selma to revive his career and quell the rumors about his sexual fetish with fish (" A Fish Called Selma ").
" When Homer arrives at the Bouvier house to pick up Marge for the prom, Selma tells Patty " Marge's dates get homelier all the time ," to which Patty replies " That's what you get when you don't put out.

Homer and unknown
Classical topics were the subjects of a good deal of Old French literature, which in the case of Trojan subject matter ultimately deriving from Homer was built on scant sources ; since the Iliad and the Odyssey were unknown, medieval Western poets had to make do with two short prose narratives based on Homer, ascribed to Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius.
Homer gives the Paeonian leader as a certain Pyraechmes ( parentage unknown ); but later on in the Iliad ( Book 21 ) Homer mentions a second leader, named Asteropaeus, son of Pelagon.
Details of his early education are unknown, but there is no reason to doubt his later testimony that he was an enthusiastic reader and that he had studied Shakespeare and Homer.
On special occasions, a procession of the greatest people in history is formed, including Buddha, William Shakespeare, Homer, Mohammed, and several unknown people whose talents far exceeded those of the world's pivotal figures, but were never famous.
While Homer is gone, Marge decides to take the children to the Rusty Barnacle, a seafood restaurant where ( unknown to her ) the bachelor party is well under way.
With only one minute left, Homer, still unsure of what he can do to get into Heaven, saves an unknown woman's baby from a runaway stroller when it reaches the street.
The ancient name of the site is unknown, it is unclear whether it is one of the Boeotian places named by Homer ( some scholars suggest that Gla is Homer's Arne ).

Homer and usually
In accordance with this double meaning, the Aegis appears in works of art sometimes as an animal's skin thrown over the shoulders and arms, and sometimes as a cuirass, with a border of snakes corresponding to the tassels of Homer, usually with the Gorgon head, the gorgoneion, in the centre.
In accordance with this double meaning, the ægis appears in works of art sometimes as an animal's skin thrown over the shoulders and arms, and sometimes as a cuirass, with a border of snakes corresponding to the tassels of Homer, usually with the Gorgon's head, the gorgoneion, in the centre.
While she usually takes her family's problems with good humor, in " Homer Alone " ( season three, 1992 ), her workload and resultant stress caused her to have a mental breakdown.
In later times these were usually called έπωδαί, charms, but in earlier days they were certainly called paeans ( παιάν ), for Homer speaks of the god, Paieon, who takes his name from them.
The number of Niobids mentioned most usually numbered twelve ( Homer ) or fourteen ( Euripides and pseudo-Apollodorus ), but other sources mention twenty, four ( Herodotus ), or eighteen ( Sappho ).
Students learning Ancient Greek today usually start with the Attic dialect, proceeding, depending on their interest, to the koine of the New Testament and other early Christian writings, or Homeric Greek to read the works of Homer and Hesiod, or Ionic Greek to read the histories of Herodotus and the medical texts of Hippocrates.
Distinctions are frequently made between " good " () and " bad " (), a dichotomy based on a class distinction between aristocrats and " others ", typical of the period but usually implicit in the works of earlier poets such as Homer —" In Theognis it amounts to an obsession ".
An early running joke was that Marge considers Flanders to be a perfect neighbor and usually sides with him instead of her husband, which always enrages Homer.
Homer is usually assumed to have lived in the 8th or 7th century, and his lifetime is often taken as marking the beginning of classical antiquity.
The Official Star Tribune Minnesota Twins Homer Hanky ( or " Homer Hanky " for short ), is a handkerchief printed with a ( usually red ) baseball-shaped logo during Minnesota Twins championship seasons ( and in 1988 after winning the World Series in 1987 ).
The track is usually completed by starting on the Queenstown side of the Southern Alps, at the northern end of Lake Wakatipu, and finishing on the Te Anau side, at the Divide, several kilometres from the Homer Tunnel to Milford Sound.
They appear in many Greek tales including those by Homer, and they are usually killed or otherwise subdued by male warriors.
Unlike Homer, who usually tries to be polite to his sisters-in-law out of respect for Marge, Patty and Selma have no hesitation about treating Homer with open rudeness and disdain.
There have been several occasions where they've acted unprofessionally in the course of their jobs, usually when Homer is involved ; they've given stoner Otto Mann a driver's license due to their mutual dislike for Homer, deliberately failed Homer to make him feel like a failure ( although he did actually fail the test ), and ignored applicants at their workstation when they laughed at Homer through their video surveillance camera after kidnapping him.
) Homer himself is dated to 940 BC, while modern scholarship usually places him after 800 BC.
" Deep Space Homer " is the source of the " Overlord meme ", which is lifted from Kent Brockman's line " And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords " and is commonly used on internet forums to express mock submission, usually for the purpose of humor or when a " participant vastly overstates the degree of oppression or social control expected to arise from the topic in question.
Homer refers to Achaeans as the dominant tribe during the Trojan war period usually dated to the 12th-11th centuries BC, using " Hellenes " to describe a relatively small tribe in Thessaly.
* Odyssey, usually ascribed to Homer
The series is based on the ancient Greek epic poem, The Odyssey, which is usually attributed to Homer.

Homer and dated
The 8th century BC is conventionally taken as the beginning of Classical Antiquity, with the first Olympiad set at 776 BC, and the epics of Homer dated to between 750 to 650 BC.
The earliest recorded Greek literature, that attributed to Homer and dated to the 8th or 7th centuries BC, was not written in the Attic dialect, but in " Old Ionic ".
Traditionally dated between 775 BC and 741 BC, he was said to have been a pupil of Homer.
* The five plays called respectively The Golden Age, The Silver Age, The Brazen Age and The Iron Age ( the last in two parts ), dated 1611, 1613, 1613 and 1632, are series of classical stories strung together with no particular connection except that " old Homer " introduces the performers of each act in turn
In " Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife ", it's revealed that he had dated a woman in a Woody Woodpecker outfit at a fairground for three months until she left him for the man who cleans the vomit on the roller coaster.
The myth of a flat Earth surrounded by an Ocean into which the sun sets is also found in the Iliad, the famous epic poem written by Homer and dated to c. 900 BC.
Inspired by Homer and Marge, Kirk decides to try to get back together with Luann by singing " Can I Borrow A Feeling ", the song he recorded on a demo tape when he dated Starla.

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