In Homer's Odyssey, Circe is described as living in a mansion that stands in the middle of a clearing in a dense wood.

Homer's brief description in the Iliad is the earliest surviving literary reference: " a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out the breath of the terrible flame of bright fire ".

Caught in the middle is Lonnie, Homer's grandson and Hud's nephew, who ultimately has to choose between the two.

Homer's middle initial, J, is mentioned for the first time in this episode.

Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey was not an attempt to make the works available to an Augustan audience, but rather to make a new work occupying a middle ground between Homer and Pope.

Homer's Iliad mentions at several points the tomb of Ilus son of Dardanus in the middle of the Trojan plain.

The episode features the revelation of Homer's middle name, " Jay ," which is a tribute to characters from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show who got their middle initial from Jay Ward.

They point out a mural she painted ( based on an incident at Woodstock where a very young Homer ran around naked in the mud ), which reveals Homer's middle name: " Jay ," which makes no difference to his name's pronunciation.

The episode features the revelation of Homer's middle name, " Jay ," which 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.

" They wrote that, aside from a couple of references to sixties psychedelia and the hippie movement, the only significant part of the episode is the revelation of Homer's middle name.

Beginning a narrative in medias res ( Latin: " into the middle of things ") began in ancient times as an oral tradition and was established as a convention of epic poetry with Homer's Iliad in the 8th century BC.

Waylon Smithers ' initial ( and only ) appearance as an African American, as seen in " Homer's Odyssey ( The Simpsons ) | Homer's Odyssey ".

Homer's apprenticeship at the age of 19 to J. H. Bufford, a Boston commercial lithographer, was a formative but " treadmill experience ".

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.

It was discovered by J. Palisa on May 21, 1879, and named after Arete, the mother of Nausicaa in Homer's The Odyssey.

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.

* " Homer's Enemy ", an episode of The Simpsons

In most episodes, he works as the Nuclear Safety Inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position he has held since " Homer's Odyssey ", the third episode of the series.

Brown and Logan also wrote that Grampa had a considerable influence in the formation of Homer's character, and that flashbacks in The Simpsons show what an " angry ", " critical " father he was to Homer.

In the eighth-season episode " The Homer They Fall ", the announcer at Homer's boxing match against Drederick Tatum refers to Fat Tony as Anthony D ' Amico, which he is called later as well, for example, by the FBI.

Smithers first appeared in the episode " Homer's Odyssey ", although he could be heard in the series premiere " Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ".

In his first visual appearance in " Homer's Odyssey ", Smithers was mistakenly animated with the wrong color and was made an African American by Gyorgi Peluci, the color stylist.

Smithers made his first appearance in " Homer's Odyssey ", which was the third episode of the first season, although he can be heard over a speaker in The Simpsons series premiere " Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ".

In his first visual appearance in " Homer's Odyssey ", Smithers was mistakenly animated with the wrong color and was made an African American by Gyorgi Peluci, the color stylist.

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 ".

In " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", Barney formed a barbershop quartet with Homer, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, and Seymour Skinner called the Be Sharps.

Castellaneta has voiced Barney every time he has appeared in the series, with the exception of the episode " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", in which some of Barney's singing is provided by a member of The Dapper Dans, who recorded lines for all four members of the Be Sharps.

In " Homer's Triple Bypass ", Hibbert announces to Homer that his heart operation will cost $ 30, 000.

In " Bye Bye Nerdie ", after Homer's baby-proofing business eliminates child injuries in Springfield, Hibbert complains that he is behind in his boat payments because of this.

", 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.

In Homer's " The Odyssey ", when Odysseus is captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus, he tells the Cyclops that his name is Outis ( No-one ).

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.

One of the first was Hesiod ; he calls the oracular Dodona, identified by reference to " the oak ", the " seat of Pelasgians ", clarifying Homer's Pelasgic Zeus.

* At the end of The Simpsons episode " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", all the members of The Be Sharps sing their first hit on Moe's rooftop while George Harrison, driving by, says " It's been done.

In " Homer's Triple Bypass ", he donates a kidney and a lung out of the goodness of his heart to whoever needs them first.

In The Simpsons fifth season's first episode, " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", Homer Simpson, along with finding an original copy of the U. S. Declaration of Independence, an Action Comics 1, and a Stradivarius violin, all of which he throws away, then comes across a full sheet of Inverted Jennys in the 5 cent box at a local swap meet.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

Daedalus ' appearance in Homer is in an extended simile, " plainly not Homer's invention ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " he is a point of comparison and so he belongs in stories which Homer's audience already recognized.

In Homer's language, objects which are daidala are finely crafted.

Homer's description of the flat disc cosmography on the shield of Achilles with the encircling ocean is also found repeated far later in Quintus Smyrnaeus ' Posthomerica ( 4th century AD ) which continues the narration of the Trojan War.

Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds.

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.

Short stories date back to oral story-telling traditions which originally produced epics such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

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.

" No trace of such an oral tradition, which Homer's listeners would have recognized in Nestor's allusion, survived in literary epic.

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.

* In the Coen Brothers ' O Brother, Where Art Thou ?, which is loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, Academy Award nominated actor Charles Durning plays Governor Menelaus ' Pappy ' O ' Daniel.

They are the comic elements of the story, which is basically a play on Homer's Odyssey IX.

The event does not occur in Homer's Iliad, which ends before the fall of the city, but is referred to in the Odyssey.

Lastly, it is unclear which modern islands correspond to Homer's Doulichion and Same.

During the first three seasons, Homer's design for some close-up shots included small lines which were meant to be eyebrows.

One of his other jobs was driving a truck filled with sugar ( which he subsequently flipped onto its side, spilling its contents, much to Homer's delight ).

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.

She was already mentioned in Homer's Iliad which relates her prideful hubris, for which she was punished by Leto, who sent Apollo and Artemis, with the loss of all her children, and her nine days of abstention from food during which time her children lay unburied.