In the seventh century BC, Hesiod, both in his Theogony ( briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570 ) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest literary version of the Pandora story ; however, there is an older mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon mankind in Homer's Iliad:

Homer's physical features are generally not used in other characters ; for example, in the later seasons, no characters other than Homer, Lenny, and Krusty the Clown have a similar beard line.

In Homer's Odyssey, a digression concerning the lineage of Theoclymenus, " a prophet, sprung from Melampus ' line of seers ", sketches the epic narrative concerning Melampus with such brevity that its details must have been familiar to Homer's audience.

But Melampus's own destiny lay in Argos, where he lived and ruled, married and sired a long line, also briefly sketched in Homer's excursus.

Moreover the last line could be imitating an image from Homer's Odyssey ( 5. 482 ), where Odysseus covers himself with leaves though some scholars think the key word might be corrupted.

The noble sentiment of line 1 seems to be original yet the vocabulary is entirely Homeric and, though lines 5 – 7 are adapted from Homer's Iliad ( 13. 130 – 33 ), there is an important difference: Homer describes the advance of one side in close formation, whereas Tyrtaeus describes two sides meeting in the hoplite style of fighting.

Homer's " In America " speech while guarding his sugar pile is a direct reference to one of Tony Montana's lines in Scarface, and his line " Oh what a world!

* Odysseus: The hero of Homer's epic, named in three other plays – he is presented here as a benchmark for spooky bloodlust ( line 1561 ).

When he heard of the death of Tiberius Gracchus, he is said to have quoted the line from the Homer's Odyssey ( i. 47 ), " So may all who engage in such lawless conspiracies perish "; after his return to Rome he was publicly asked by the tribune Gaius Papirius Carbo what he thought of the fate of Gracchus, and replied that he was justly slain.

Homer's line " uh ... Yeah " after being asked if he found the bathroom is one of Jay Kogen's favorite Simpsons jokes.

The first usage of the term phalanx comes from Homer's "( φαλαγξ )", used to describe hoplites fighting in an organized battle line.

Homer's line, " too exciting ", when he sees the lingerie store was written by James L. Brooks.

The Fox censors wrote a note concerning Homer's line, " Bart can kiss my hairy, yellow butt!

Burns also calls the robot that had Homer's brain a " clinking, clattering cacophany of colligenous cogs and camshafts ", similar to the Wizard's line to the Tin Man: " You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of colligenous junk!

Homer's line, " Today, as I leave for Capital City, I consider myself the luckiest mascot on the face of the earth!

" Dawn Taylor of The DVD Journal thought the best line of the episode was Homer's " Marge, this ticket doesn't just give me a seat.

David Mirkin said that Homer's line " Oh I wish, I wish I hadn't killed that fish " is one of his favorites in the show, and that the alternate future in which the family are rich " breaks heart every time ".

The ska band named I Voted for Kodos takes its name from Homer's line " Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos ", at the end of " Citizen Kang ".

" A reviewer for DVD. net, on the other hand, thought the best line was Homer's " Oh Lord, be honest – are we the most pathetic family in the universe, or what?

The episode is banned in the People's Republic of China due to its unfavorable reference to Mao Zedong ( Homer's line about how he's like a little angel who killed 50 million people ).

Dawn Taylor of The DVD Journal thought Homer's line to Bart, " I want to share something with you, the three little sentences that will get you through life.

" Homer's Barbershop Quartet " was a hold-over episode from the season four production line.

Oddly enough, however, it is not the headline that attracts Homer's attention: the first letter of each line spells " HOMER ".

The next ancient text to come close to rivaling that number is Homer's Iliad, which is thought to have survived in 643 ancient copies.

His mother was a gifted amateur watercolorist and Homer's first teacher, and she and her son had a close relationship throughout their lives.

The title derives from Book XI of Homer's The Odyssey, wherein Agamemnon speaks to Odysseus: " As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.

As freshmen and sophomores, College Prep students learn basic composition and analytical writing through close reading of works from the literary canon, such as Homer's Odyssey, J. D.

Homer's Odyssey contains a haunting description of a cave of the Nereids on Ithaca, close by a harbor sacred to Phorcys.

He had asked for the recording tape to be run for about 20 minutes, so he could do many different voice variations that would fit the different men, but still be close to Homer's voice.

The poem, with close to half a million lines, is twenty times longer than Homer's Odyssey, and one of the longest epics in the world.

Kydonia was constantly at war with other Cretan city-states such as Aptera, Phalasarna and Polyrrinia and was important enough for the Kydonians to be mentioned in Homer's Odyssey ( iii. 330 ).

Homer's voice began as a loose impression of Walter Matthau, but Castellaneta could not " get enough power behind that voice " and could not sustain his Matthau impression for the nine to ten hour long recording sessions.

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

But when he reads Homer's comments, he becomes convinced that Homer was the only person brave enough to tell him the truth.

Baldauf discovered parallels between the historical books of the Old Testament and the works of the mediaeval Romance genre as well as Homer's Iliad that were string enough to lead him to the assumption that the text of both the Iliad and the Bible date from the late Middle Ages.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

In Homer's Iliad, when Alcmene was about to give birth to Heracles, Zeus announced to all the gods that on that day a child, descended from Zeus himself, would be born who would rule all those around him.

In Homer's Odyssey she is the blond-haired goddess who separates the chaff from the grain.

Homer's poems appear to have been recorded shortly after the alphabet's invention: an inscription from Ischia in the Bay of Naples, ca.

While they may be very different in subject matter, Theogony and Works and Days share a distinctive language, metre and prosody that subtly distinguish them from Homer's work and from the Shield of Heracles ( see Hesiod's Greek below ).

Though typical of epic, his vocabulary features some significant differences from Homer's.

In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus crawls beneath two shoots of olive that grow from a single stock, and in the Iliad, ( XVII. 53ff ) is a metaphoric description of a lone olive tree in the mountains, by a spring ; the Greeks observed that the olive rarely thrives at a distance from the sea, which in Greece invariably means up mountain slopes.

In Homer's Odyssey ( Book 9 ), Odysseus lands on the Island of the Cyclopes during his journey home from the Trojan War.

It has been suggested that two styles of combat are being described ; an early style, with thrusting spears, dating to the Mycenaean period in which the Iliad is set, and, anachronistically, a later style, with throwing spears, from Homer's own Archaic period.

Quintus of Smyrna, recalling this passage, does write that Thetis once released Zeus from chains ; but there is no other reference to this rebellion among the Olympians, and some readers, such as M. M. Willcock, have understood the episode as an ad hoc invention of Homer's to support Achilles ' request that his mother intervene with Zeus.

The date is surmised from a passage in Homer's Odyssey, which reads, " The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world.

Ultimately — like much fantasy — it draws from mythology and classical epics such as Homer's Odyssey and the Norse sagas.

The Cyclopes seen in Homer's Odyssey are of a different type from those in the Theogony and they have no connection to blacksmithing.

Greek mythology attributed the founding of Susa to king Memnon of Aethiopia, a character from Homer's Trojan War epic, the Iliad.

* Jacob M. Appel's play, Helen of Sparta, retells Homer's Iliad from Helen's point-of-view.

Homer's middle initial " J ", which stands for " Jay ", is a " tribute " to animated characters such as Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket J. Squirrel from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show who got their middle initial from Jay Ward.

As Homer's boxing coach in " The Homer They Fall " ( 1996 ), he narrates his career as a boxer, from " Kid Gorgeous " through " Kid Presentable ", " Kid Gruesome " and eventually " Kid Moe ".

The term epidemic derives from a term first attributed to Homer's Odyssey, which later took its medical meaning from a treatise by Hippocrates, Epidemics.

According to a legend, when Phidias was asked what inspired him — whether he climbed Mount Olympus to see Zeus, or whether Zeus came down from Olympus so that Pheidias could see him — the artist answered that he portrayed Zeus according to Book One, verses 528 – 530 of Homer's Iliad:

", got its title from the film and features Homer's half-brother Herb, who goes from CEO of a major car manufacturer to a hobo.