One of the greatest Homerists of our time, Frederick M. Combellack, argues that when it is assumed The Iliad and The Odyssey are oral poems, the postulated single redactor called Homer cannot be either credited with or denied originality in choice of phrasing.

* Homer, Iliad ii. 595 – 600 ( c. 700 BCE )

* Homer, Iliad II, 819 – 21 ; V, 217 – 575 ; XIII, 455 – 544 ; XX, 75 – 352 ;

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A relationship between objects of art described by Homer and the Mycenaean treasure was generally allowed, and a correct opinion prevailed that, while certainly posterior, the civilization of the Iliad was reminiscent of the Mycenaean.

The Aegis (), as stated in the Iliad, is the shield or buckler or breastplate, of Athena or Zeus, which, according to Homer was fashioned by Hephaestus.

Pope: " Thus on a roe the well-breath'd beagle flies, And rends his hide fresh-bleeding with the dart " The Iliad of Homer ( 1715 – 20 ) Book XV: 697 – 8

The first line of Homer ’ s Iliad —“ Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus ’ son Achilles ”— provides an example:

Finally, even after accepting the various alterations admitted by Homer, some lines remain impossible to scan, e. g. Iliad I. 108 “ not a good word spoken nor brought to pass ”:

This may take the form of a purpose ( as in Milton, who proposed " to justify the ways of God to men "); of a question ( as in the Iliad, which Homer initiates by asking a Muse to sing of Achilles ' anger ); or of a situation ( as in the Song of Roland, with Charlemagne in Spain ).

** Iliad, ascribed to Homer ( Greek mythology )

** The Whole Works of Homer Prince of Poets by George Chapman ( 1616 ) a retelling of the Iliad and Odyssey in iambic rhyming couplets: the Iliad in iambic heptameter, and the Odyssey in iambic pentameter.

* Homer ’ s Iliad

* Homer, Iliad xiv. 274 – 9 ; xix. 259f.

Homer expressed her relationship with Zeus delicately in the Iliad, in which she declares to Zeus, " I am Cronus ' eldest daughter, and am honourable not on this ground only, but also because I am your wife, and you are king of the gods.

* 700 BC: Epic poem Iliad by Homer, earliest account on the continent.

In the Western classical tradition, Homer (;, Hómēros ) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet.

The idea that Homer was responsible for just the two outstanding epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, did not win consensus until 350 BC.

One view which attempts to bridge the differences holds that the Iliad was composed by " Homer " in his maturity, while the Odyssey was a work of his old age.

" Samuel Butler argues, based on literary observations, that a young Sicilian woman wrote the Odyssey ( but not the Iliad ), an idea further pursued by Robert Graves in his novel Homer's Daughter and Andrew Dalby in Rediscovering Homer.

Aristotle ( Metaphysics 983b – 987a ) believed that the question of first causes may even have started with Hesiod ( Theogony 116 – 53 ) and Homer ( Iliad 14. 201, 246 ).

It is best known for being the focus of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.

According to Greek source, the original name of the Lydian kingdom was Maionia ( Μαιονία ), or Maeonia: Homer ( Iliad ii.

Homer describes their capital not as Sardis but as Hyde ( Iliad xx.

Homer mentions an Achaean attack upon the delta, and Menelaus speaks of the same in Book 4 of the Odyssey to Telemachus when he recounts his own return home from the Trojan War.

The city of Larissa is mentioned on Book II of Iliad by Homer in this verse:

Homer also quote ' Sandy Pylos ' in Book 17 of the Odyssey about Telemachus travelling to Sparta in search of news of his father Odysseus.

Later, in Book 17, Homer gives Menelaus an extended aristeia as the hero retrieves the corpse of Patroclus from the battlefield.

Comic Book Guy ( claiming Jeffery Albertson to be his real name in the episode " Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass ".

Finally, in the February 6, 2005 episode, " Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass ", Comic Book Guy nonchalantly tells Ned Flanders: " My name is Jeff Albertson, but everyone calls me ' Comic Book Guy '".

The Greek poet Homer extolled the wealth of Thebes in the Iliad, Book 9 ( c. 8th Century BC ): "... in Egyptian Thebes the heaps of precious ingots gleam, the hundred-gated Thebes.

Homer described him in detail in the Iliad, Book II, even though he plays only a minor role in the story.

* The Trojan War tapestry referred to by Homer in Book III of the Iliad, where Iris disguises herself as Laodice and finds Helen " working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and Achaeans, that Ares had made them fight for her sake.

Homer is among the earliest to hold the world record for an Easter egg hunt-80, 000 eggs, listed in the 1985 Guinness Book of World Records.

Early examples are known such as those held for Patroclus by Achilles, described by Homer and in Book 5 of Virgil's Aeneid, in which Aeneas organizes athletic contests on the anniversary of his father's death.

* In a season 15 episode of The Simpsons entitled Simple Simpson, Homer becomes a pie throwing super hero and leaves the following note after pieing Comic Book Guy:

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.

In the Simpsons book The Book of Homer, one of Homer's bottom 40 things is not hearing " Mr. Roboto " on the radio enough.

His latest book for young readers, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, set in the American Civil War, was named a Newbery Honor Book in 2010.

To get money for Christmas shopping, Homer gives the card to Comic Book Guy, who gives Homer everything in his cash register.

During the compilation of the Domesday Book in 1086, the settlement of Torentún is recorded, along with the settlement of Homer Green, which far outdates any claim that Ince Blundell is the oldest village in Sefton.

Meanwhile, Homer has been helping a recovering Comic Book Guy look for a friend, but his attempts fail until he meets Agnes Skinner.

When Homer and Comic Book Guy enter Moe's Tavern, Moe says " Get out and take your Sacagawea dollars with you " to one of his guests.

In " Desperately Xeeking Xena ", Bart and Lisa gain superpowers and must rescue Xena star Lucy Lawless from the Comic Book Guy's alter ego The Collector, and in " Life's a Glitch, Then You Die ", Homer causes worldwide destruction thanks to the Y2K virus.