The name Crete ( Κρήτη ) first appears in Homer's Odyssey.

Odysseus ( or ; Greek:, Odusseus ), also known by the Roman name Ulysses (; ), was the perhaps fictional Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

In Homer's epic, the Odyssey, Odysseus visits the kingdom of Aeolus, and this is the old name for Thessaly.

Very little else of Homer's character was based on him, and to prove that the meaning behind Homer's name was not significant, Groening later named his own son Homer.

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

Homer's young brother's name, Ulysses, is the Roman form of the name Odysseus, the Odyssey's protagonist.

Iphianassa () is the name of one of Agamemnon's three daughters in Homer's Iliad ( ix. 145, 287 ) The name Iphianassa may be simply an older variant of the name Iphigenia.

Although he is mentioned only briefly in Homer's Iliad, in which Hera takes Stentor's character to encourage the Greeks to fight, his name has been living in the term " stentorian " voice, meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous: Homer said his " voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men ".

Both Pandarus and other characters in the medieval narrative who carry names from the Iliad are quite different from Homer's characters of the same name.

His name is taken from the father of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.

* Ilion ( Ἴλιον ) or, Latinized, Ilium, an antique name for the legendary city of Troy, hence the title of Homer's Iliad

In " Homer's Enemy ", an 8th-season episode of The Simpsons, Moe Szyslak shows off his own enemies list, which Barney Gumble quickly appraises as Nixon's list, with the latter's name crossed out and replaced with Moe's.

Its current name is mentioned, with a slight shift of one letter, in Homer's Iliad as Krapathos ( οἳ δ ' ἄρα Νίσυρόν τ ' εἶχον Κράπαθόν τε Κάσον τε ).

Japan name Yumaiosu is the katakana ortography of English pronunciation of Eumaeus, the pig-guardian of Odysseus in Homer's poem.

Ptolemaios is first attested in Homer's Iliad and is the name of an Achaean warrior, son of Piraeus, father of Eurymedon.

The name derives from Nausicaä, a princess in Homer's Odyssey.

This Latin name means " clawed warrior " in English, partly from the Greek warrior Meriones in Homer's Iliad.

* Ilion ( Ἴλιον ) or, Latinized, Ilium, another name for the legendary city of Troy, hence the title of Homer's Iliad

* Frank Grimes, " Homer's Enemy " in The Simpsons episode of the same name.

Homer's original jingle, " Call Mr. Plow, that's my name, that name again is Mr. Plow!

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.

He is a character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and receives full treatment in Roman mythology as the legendary founder of what would become Ancient Rome, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid.

He is a significant figure in Homer's Iliad and is also mentioned in the Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.

In Homer's Iliad he is described as of great stature, colossal frame and strongest of all the Achaeans.

The Achaeans (, Akhaioí ) is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad ( used 598 times ) and Odyssey.

In Greek mythology, Circe (; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē " falcon ") is a minor goddess of magic ( or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress ), described in Homer's Odyssey as " The loveliest of all immortals ".

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

In Homer's Iliad, the horses of the Myrmidons graze on wild celery that grows in the marshes of Troy, and in Odyssey, there is mention of the meadows of violet and wild celery surrounding the cave of Calypso.

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.

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

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.

The caesura is also handled far more strictly, with Homer's feminine caesura becoming exceedingly rare, and the second-foot caesura always paired with one in the fourth.

* His Ilium / Olympos cycle is inspired by Homer's works.

The other Strife is presumably she who appears in Homer's Iliad Book IV ; equated with Enyo as sister of Ares and so presumably daughter of Zeus and Hera:

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.

" Though Zeus is often called Zeus Heraios ' Zeus, ( consort ) of Hera ', Homer's treatment of Hera is less than respectful, and in late anecdotal versions of the myths ( see below ) she appeared to spend most of her time plotting revenge on the nymphs seduced by her Consort, for Hera upheld all the old right rules of Hellene society and sorority.

Even the French epics display sentiments of fear and hatred of the Saracens ; but, in Homer's works, the interest is purely dramatic.

So far as can be seen, the chief interest in Homer's works is that of human feeling and emotion, and of drama ; indeed, his works are often referred to as " dramas ".

Even earlier, a kind of primitive haggis is referred to in Homer's Odyssey, in book 20, ( towards the end of the eighth century BC ) when Odysseus is compared to " a man before a great blazing fire turning swiftly this way and that a stomach full of fat and blood, very eager to have it roasted quickly.

* Homer's Texaco Service Station, located at the North East corner of the intersection of Louisiana Highway 86 and Lake Dauterive Road ( Louisiana Highway 3242 ) the family-owned business was in continuous operation from 1946 until the late 1990s.

The German archaeologist Wilhelm Dörpfeld, having performed excavations at various locations of Lefkada, was able to obtain funding to do work on the island by suggesting that Lefkada was Homer's Ithaca, and the palace of Odysseus was located west of Nidri on the south coast of Lefkada.

Myrsini is named after the ancient city of Myrsinos or Myrtountion ( named in Homer's Iliad and in Strabo's Geographica V ), which was located in the area.

The Phrygia of Homer's Iliad appears to be located in the area that embraced the Ascanian lake and the northern flow of the Sangarius river and so was much more limited in extent than classical Phrygia.