Fragment 16, for instance, serves to characterise Helen, a key figure of Homer's, while Fragment 44 glorifies domestic joy by depicting the events leading to the wedding of Hector and Andromache.

On one hand, Homer portrays Nestor as a wise man ; Nestor repeatedly offers advice to the Achaeans that has been claimed to be anachronistic in Homer's time – for example, arranging the armies by tribes and clans or effectively using chariots in battle.

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.

" 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.

In Homer's Odyssey XII, Odysseus is given advice by Circe to sail closer to Scylla, for Charybdis could drown his whole ship: " Hug Scylla's crag — sail on past her — top speed!

In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope ( ; ) is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps her suitors at bay in his long absence and is eventually reunited with him.

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.

The mythic theme was an ancient one, for Homer's listeners were expected to know the allusion, when Penelope reveals to the still-disguised Odysseus her anguish of a night:

During the Trojan War ( prior to the actions described in Homer's Iliad ), Agamemnon took Chryses ' daughter Chryseis ( Astynome ) from Moesia as a war prize and when Chryses attempted to ransom her, refused to return her.

Robert Graves ' 1955 novel Homer's Daughter presents Nausicaa as the author of the Odyssey, which draws on experiences and influences of her own life.

In Homer's Iliad, Podarces and Protesilaus were former suitors of Helen, and therefore bound to defend the marriage rights of Menelaus, her husband, when Helen was kidnapped by Paris.

In Homer's Iliad, Helen looks down from the walls of Troy and wonders why she does not see her brothers among the Achaeans.

After her son's death, at Corfu she commissioned the building of a palace which she named the Achilleion, after Homer's hero Achilles in The Iliad.

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

In her role as the seductive femme fatale, Ayesha is part of " a long tradition of male fantasy that includes Homer's Circe, Shakespeare's Cleopatra, and Keats's ' La Belle Dame sans Merci '".

Calypso is remembered most for her role in Homer's Odyssey, in which she keeps the fabled Greek hero Odysseus on her island so she could make him her immortal husband.

Josh Weinstein observed that, " When we realized that there was a plaza between the two towers, we knew it was a perfect spot to have Homer's car.

" Dawn Taylor of The DVD Journal thought the most memorable line of the episode was Homer's idea of the perfect car, " You know that little ball you put on the aerial so you can find your car in a parking lot?

However, as a dejected Marge calls home and takes Homer's dinner order, Llewellyn realizes that she is perfect for the role.

* In Homer's Odyssey, the number of suitors coveting Penelope, wife of Odysseus.

On a few occasions Homer's wife Marge and even non-related characters such as Mr. Burns and Krusty the Clown have also used this phrase.

Also, he is shown with a woman ( presumably his wife ) attending Homer's marriage class in " Secrets of a Successful Marriage ".

In Homer's legend of the Odyssey, Penelope the faithful wife of Odysseus was a weaver, weaving her design for a shroud by day, but unravelling it again at night, to keep her suitors from claiming her during the long years while Odysseus was away.

The asteroid is named after Penelope, the wife of Odysseus in Homer's The Odyssey.

Other family members include Homer's mother Mona Simpson, Homer's " Vegas wife " Amber, Marge's mother Jacqueline Bouvier, and other minor relatives.

Meanwhile, Homer's wife Marge and their daughter Lisa set out to find the missing parts of " Vincent Price's Egg Magic ," a celebrity-endorsed craft kit.

They then go to the casino's bar and get drunk, waking up the next morning in their hotel room married to two cocktail waitresses: Homer's new wife is named Amber, and Ned's new wife is Ginger.

This gang act in a stereotypical gang manner, wrecking Homer's house and kidnapping his wife.

Eventually, Homer's wife, Marge, is fed up with the punishment and cuts the rope, which instead leads to Judge Harm sentencing them to have their heads and hands locked up in wooden stocks.

It fails, but they instead learn that Springfield is the world's fattest town, prompting Homer's wife Marge to sue Garth Motherloving's sugar company.

Cousin to Freddy and brother to Homer's girlfriend Daphne, Harmon was expelled from the Mad Scientists ' Club " for conduct unbecoming a scientist and for giving away secret information ".

Finally, during a session in Congress, the janitor and Lisa, with Homer's drunken diversion, place the Air Traffic Bill under a bill giving orphans American flags.

Homer's acts include giving hobos his old clothes, giving Lenny a photo cube, giving Marge the last pork chop ( causing her to break down in tears of joy ) and building a skating rink in the Simpsons ' backyard ( to the delight of Comic Book Guy ).

Moe forces beer down Homer's throat, giving him alcohol poisoning.

A montage follows of Mona catching up on Homer's missed childhood ; giving Homer a bath, watching Homer in the school play, knitting for Homer, teaching Homer how to ride a bike, and seeing a reenactment of the birth of Bart.

Homer starts a day care center ( under Marge's ownership ), " Uncle Homer's Day Care Center ", to entertain himself, but makes Bart and Lisa feel like outcasts by ignoring them, giving Bart's jacket to Milhouse, forcing them out of their bedrooms for a film crew that is making a documentary about him, and having them work long hours at night to cut out felt hearts in his honor.

Homer attempts to punish Bart for giving his turn to Lisa by forbidding him to have any dessert, but this backfires when Bart makes another deal to give his turn to Lisa in exchange for her dessert again, much to Homer's discomfort.

At this point, an enemy submarine approaches Homer's, and Homer immediately responds by giving the order to fire a torpedo.

The theme that Homer's attempts at giving the islanders what he considers " civilization " leads only to the demise of their peaceful innocence parallels the theories of 18th century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Homer and Bob end up giving chase to the killer, who is found out to be, indeed, Junior, Homer's mechanic.

Scholia to the Iliad episode and the Rhesus agree against Homer's version in giving Rhesus a more heroic stature, incompatible with Homer's version.