According to Homer, Circe suggested two alternative routes to Odysseus to return to Ithaca: toward the " Wandering Rocks " where King Aeolus reigned or passing between the dangerous Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, conventionally identified with the Strait of Messina.

* According to Homer Hickam's memoir, Rocket Boys, and its movie production, October Sky, the early rockets he and his friends built were ironically named " Auk ".

According to Diodorus Siculus, Homer had even visited Egypt.

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

According to Homer ( Odyssey iv: 412 ), the sandy island of Pharos situated off the coast of the Nile Delta was the home of Proteus, the oracular Old Man of the Sea and herdsman of the sea-beasts.

* According to Homer, Idomeneus reached his house safe and sound.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, Triton dwelt with his parents in a golden palace in the depths of the sea ; Homer places his seat in the waters off Aegae.

According to Homer it was called Aegae.

According to Groening, " Homer originated with my goal to both amuse my real father, and just annoy him a little bit.

According to Homer she was the wife of Zethus, and the mother of Itylus.

According to Homer, Hecuba was the daughter of King Dymas of Phrygia, but Euripides and Virgil write of her as the daughter of the Thracian king Cisseus.

According to Homer, Eurytus became so proud of his archery skills that he challenged Apollo.

According to Homer, Odyssey they were between Aeaea and the rock of Scylla.

According to Homer, Diomedes enters the war with a fleet of 80 ships, third only to the contributions of Agamemnon ( 100 ships ) and Nestor ( 90 ).

According to Homer, he was called Xanthos by gods and Scamander by men, which might indicate that the former name refers to the god and the latter one to the river itself.

According to Homer, Nausithous led a migration of Phaeacians from Hypereia to the island of Scheria in order to escape the lawless Cyclopes.

According to Homer, Alcinous is the happy ruler of the Phaiakians in the island of Scheria, who has by Arete five sons and one daughter, Nausicaa.

According to Homer, it was him who Lycurgus killed.

According to Homer, the Greek fleet on its way to Troy, in the generation after the Argo quest, was reprovisioned and victualled at Euneus ' orders.

According to Diogenes Laërtius, Xenophanes wrote in hexameters and also composed elegies and iambics against Homer and Hesiod.

According to Homer, Myrsinos took part in the Trojan War together with all of the Eleans ( Iliad II. 616 ).

According to Homer, Calypso kept Odysseus hostage at Ogygia for seven years, while Pseudo-Apollodorus says five years and Hyginus says one.

According to Homer, the Leleges were a distinct Anatolian tribe ; according to Herodotus the Leleges were an early name for the Carians ; and according to the fourth-century BCE historian Philippus of Theangela, who suggested the Leleges had connections to Messenia, in mainland Greece, they were overcome by the Carians.

According to this theory, then, Homer really does exist, though we must still use special language when talking about somebody who exists at a distant time — just as we would use special language when talking about something a long way away ( the very words near, far, above, below, over there, and such are directly comparable to phrases such as in the past, a minute ago, and so on ).

According to one tradition, Achilles was dipped in it in his childhood, acquiring invulnerability, with exception of his heel, by which his mother held him.

According to the Cypria, Achilles forced the army to stay.

According to late writers, he was killed either by Achilles or by one of the following four: Diomedes, Idomeneus and the two Ajaxes who at one point united to attack the opponents.

According to some, following his death, Briseis: "... was given to one of Achilles ' comrades-at-arms just as his armor had been ", after the fall of Troy.

According to other accounts, he was slain by Hector or by Paris in the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo together with Achilles His ashes, along with those of Achilles and Patroclus, were enshrined in a mound on the promontory of Sigeion, where the inhabitants of Ilium offered sacrifice to the dead heroes.

According to the Iliad, Achilles ' soldiers used yarrow to treat their wounds, hence some of its common names such as allheal and bloodwort.

According to the Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, Batis was killed by Alexander in imitation of Achilles ' treatment of the fallen Hector.

According to reports by Hakan Alfredson, M. D., and associates of clinical trials in Sweden, the pain in Achilles tendinopathy arises from the nerves associated with neovascularization and can be effectively treated with 1 – 4 small injections of a sclerosant.

According to a myth arising later, his mother had dipped the infant Achilles in the river Styx, holding onto him by his heel, and he became invulnerable where the waters touched him — that is, everywhere except the areas of his heel that were covered by her thumb and forefinger.

According to an epitome of the lost Trojan War epic of Arctinus of Miletus, the remains of Achilles and Patroclus were brought to this island by Thetis, to be put in a sanctuary.

According to Greek mythology, the palace of Thetis, mother of Achilles, king of Phthia, was situated between Imbros and Samothrace.

According to him, the island was captured by Achilles during the siege of Troy.

According to the late Byzantine Patria of Constantinople, ancient Byzantium was enclosed by a small wall, which began on the northern edge of the acropolis, extended west to the Tower of Eugenios, then went south and west towards the Strategion and the Baths of Achilles, continued south to the area known in Byzantine times as Chalkoprateia, and then turned, in the area of the Hagia Sophia, in a loop towards the northeast, crossed the regions known as Topoi and Arcadianae and reached the sea at the later quarter of Mangana.

According to Suidas, Chaeremon was also a comic poet, and the title of at least one of his plays ( Achilles Slayer of Thersites ) seems to indicate that it was a satyric drama.

According to Greek mythology, the Molossians were the descendants of Molossus, one of the three sons of Neoptolemus, son of Achilles and Deidamia.

According to another tradition Pyrrhichios was named after Pyrrus ( alternative name of Neoptolemus ), son of Achilles, who was the first who danced Pyrrichios, after defeating in battle Eurypylus, son of Telephus, who fought on the side of the Trojans during the end of the Trojan War.

According to Plato, Atlantis was a naval power lying " in front of the Pillars of Hercules " that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9, 000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC.

According to Jordanes's Getica, the Goths entered Oium, part of Scythia, under their 5th king, Filimer, where they subdued the Spali ( Sarmatians ), conquered the Kingdom of the Bosporus and captured several cities on the Euxinean coast, including Olbia and Tyras.

According to Pala copperplate inscription Devapala exterminated the Utkalas, conquered the Pragjyotisha ( Assam ), shattered the pride of the Huna, and humbled the lords of Pratiharas, Gurjara and the Dravidas.

According to Widsith and the Danish sources Offa successfully conquered the Myrgings, possibly a clan of Saxon origin, and incorporated their land into Angel or Danish lands, by slaying two Myrging princes in single combat and installing himself as their king.

According to oral traditions it was established in around 1400 when King Lukena Lua Nimi conquered the kingdom of Kabunga and established Mbanza Kongo as its capital.

According to 19th century British historians, it was these " Aryans " who " invaded " India and established the caste system, an elitist act of social organization that ( according to the British ) separated the " light-skinned " Indo-Aryan conquerors from the " conquered dark-skinned " indigenous Dravidian tribes through enforcement of " racial endogamy ".

According to Samaritan tradition, Mount Gerizim was the original Holy Place of the Israelites from the time that Joshua conquered Canaan and the tribes of Israel settled the land.

According to the Codex Mendoza, during Tizoc's reign the altepetls of Tonalimoquetzayan, Toxico, Ecatepec, Cillán, Tecaxic, Tolocan, Yancuitlan, Tlappan, Atezcahuacan, Mazatlán, Xochiyetla, Tamapachco, Ecatliquapechco and Miquetlan were conquered.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, chieftains of a clan known as the Gewisse, who were said to have landed on the Hampshire coast and conquered the surrounding area, including the Isle of Wight.

According to Mahavamsa, the Vanga prince Vijaya Singha conquered Lanka ( modern day Sri Lanka ) in 544 BC and gave the name " Sinhala " to the country.

According to Pala copperplate inscription Devapala exterminated the Utkalas, conquered the Pragjyotisha ( Assam ), shattered the pride of the Huna, and humbled the lords of Gurjara, Pratiharas and the Dravidas.

According to the Bible, he conquered Judah and Jerusalem, and sent the Jews into exile.

According to the myth, every time he conquered another tribe, he incorporated his defeated enemy's emblem into his own, thus explains why the dragon appears to have features of various animals.

According to his annals, discovered at Assur, in his first year he conquered eight countries in the northwest and destroyed the fortress of Arinnu, the dust of which he brought to Assur.

" According to Tony Cummings, " Despite the use of a different arranger at each session Solomon conquered all.

According to the Nihon Shoki, Silla was conquered by the Japanese Empress-consort Jingū in the third century.

According to Seneca, Agricola was of the opinion that Ireland could be conquered with one legion and a moderate amount of auxiliaries, in all roughly 6, 000 men.

According to the records, after the Zhou dynasty conquered the Shang dynasty, one of the new ruling group's main problems was dealing with widespread inebriation with ethanol, associated with the Shang culture.

According to Ó Corráin ( 1998 ) " when and how the Vikings conquered and occupied the Isles is unknown, perhaps unknowable ", although from 793 onwards repeated raids by Vikings on the British Isles are recorded.

According to Diogenes Laertius, Solon “ diminished the honours paid to Athletes who were victorious in the games, fixing the prize for a victor at Olympia at five hundred drachmae, and for one who conquered at the Isthmian games at one hundred ” ( Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Philosophers 1. 55: Solon ; Greek ).

According to Ottoman traveler Evliya Celebi, Mitrovica had been conquered by the Bosnian sanjak bey Husrev-bey.

According to the Bible, the Israelites conquered Golan from the Amorites.

According to the Bible, the Israelites invaded Bashan and conquered it from the Amorites.

According to some Biblical chronologies, the city was conquered by King David in 1003 BC, or according to other sources 869 BC.