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, Achilles conquered 11 cities and 12 islands.

* 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, 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 the brief epitome by the so-called Apollodorus, Eurytus had a beautiful young daughter named Iole who was eligible for marriage.

According to Hyginus, he was killed by Aeetes, if indeed the text is not corrupt ; according to Diodorus Siculus, however, he was killed by Heracles during the latter's war against Eurytus.

According to LDS Doctrine, Michael the Archangel became the first man on earth, Adam, to experience his mortality.

According to the myth, when Helios ' son Phaëton was killed, his mourning sisters became poplars, and their tears became the origin of elektron, amber.

According to Tacitus, in 58, Nero became involved with the noble woman Poppaea Sabina.

According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.

According to the FidoNet Nodelist, BBSes reached their peak usage around 1996, which was the same period that the World Wide Web suddenly became mainstream.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

According to al-Maqrizi, the Yassa of Genghis Khan contained a provision that mandated the death penalty for anyone who became bankrupt three times.

According to historian Christopher Moore, coalition governments in Canada became much less possible in 1919 when the leaders of parties were no longer chosen by elected MPs, but instead began to be chosen by party members.

According to one, his gifts became very apparent at the age of three when he corrected, mentally and without fault in his calculations, an error his father had made on paper while calculating finances.

According to Cassius Dio Claudius became very sickly and thin by the end of Caligula's reign, most likely due to stress.

According to biographer Ray Spangenburg, these early years as Sagan tried to understand the mysteries of the planets, became a " driving force in his life, a continual spark to his intellect, and a quest that would never be forgotten.

According to Catholic theologian Karl Rahner, the purpose of modern Christology is to formulate the Christian belief that " God became man and that God-made-man is the individual Jesus Christ " in a manner that this statement can be understood consistently, without the confusions of past debates and mythologies.

According to Cyril's theology, there were two states for the Son: the state that existed prior to the Son ( or Word / Logos ) becoming enfleshed in the person of Jesus and the state that actually became enfleshed.

According to Eliade, " eschatological myths " became prominent during the Middle Ages during " certain historical movements ".

According to writer / director Peter Bogdanovich, Marlene Dietrich told him during an aircraft flight that she and James Stewart had an affair during shooting and that she became pregnant and had the baby surreptitiously aborted without telling Stewart.

According to Wray, Jean Harlow had been RKO's original choice, but because MGM put Harlow under exclusive contract during the pre-production phase of the film, she became unavailable and Wray was approached by director Merian C. Cooper to play the role of Ann Darrow, the blonde captive of King Kong.

According to Arendt, the concept of freedom became associated with the Christian notion of freedom of the will, or inner freedom, around the 5th century C. E.

According to the Revolutions de Paris, it became " the symbol of the liberation from all servitudes, the sign for unification of all the enemies of despotism.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

" According to Barson, " Capra became ensconced as Harry Cohn's most trusted director.

According to the Italian Constitution, after his resignation from the office of President, Cossiga became lifetime senator, joining his predecessors in the upper house of parliament, with whom he also shared the title of President Emeritus of the Italian Republic.

According to the Julian calendar and Annunciation Style of enumerating years, then in use in the British Empire, Washington was born on February 11, 1731 ; when the Gregorian calendar was implemented in the British Empire in 1752, in accordance with the provisions of the Calendar ( New Style ) Act 1750, his birth date became February 22, 1732.

According to several accounts of this time, guilds became increasingly involved in simple territorial struggles against each other and against free practitioners of their arts.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, institutionalisation of the word became complete with its first appearance in a dictionary ( 1848 ) and first appearance in an encyclopedia ( 1868 ).