Look neither at the page of Homer, nor of elegy, nor tragic muse, nor epic strain.

Other work included on-camera guest appearances on such series as The Polly Bergen Show, as Homer Winch on The Beverly Hillbillies, The Virginian, The Lucy Show, Claude Wilbur on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Dan Raven, and The Brady Bunch, as well as a 1960 movie that included a compilation of Three Stooges shorts ( Stop !, Look and Laugh ), and a part in the Jerry Lewis movie Which Way to the Front ?.

Homer is traveling by air in first class and says " Look at me, I'm reading The Economist.

Unbeknownst to Bart, who is eating an apple, Homer tells Lisa " Look at him over there, eating that apple.

Rembrandt's `` Aristotle Contemplating Bust of Homer '' brought $2,300,000 at auction the other night.

In Homer, Aphrodite, venturing into battle to protect her son, Aeneas, is wounded by Diomedes and returns to her mother, to sink down at her knee and be comforted.

Angilbert was the Homer of the emperor's literary circle, and was the probable author of an epic, of which the fragment which has been preserved describes the life at the palace and the meeting between Charlemagne and Leo III.

Like Achilles, he is represented ( although not by Homer ) as living after his death in the island of Leuke at the mouth of the Danube.

Homer appears to know nothing of all these tragic occurrences, and we learn from him only that, after the death of Thyestes, Aegisthus ruled as king at Mycenae and took no part in the Trojan expedition.

* In The Simpsons episode " Homer at the Bat ", Homer Simpson is hit in the head by a pitch while playing for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team, rendering him unconscious, but forcing in the winning run.

Another example is an episode of The Simpsons entitled " Homer at the Bat " which takes its title from the poem.

The ' 38 club saw Dizzy Dean lead the team's pitching staff and provided a historic moment when they won a crucial late-season game at Wrigley Field over the Pittsburgh Pirates with a walk-off home run by Gabby Hartnett, which became known in baseball lore as " The Homer in the Gloamin '".

A 1973 diagnosis of colon cancer, however, led Atkins to redefine his role at RCA, to allow others to handle administration while he went back to his first love, the guitar, often recording with Reed or even Homer & Jethro's Jethro Burns ( Atkins's brother-in-law ) after Homer died in 1971.

He makes a point of maintaining an emotional distance from the orphans, so that they can more easily make the transition into an adoptive family, but when it becomes clear that Homer is going to spend his entire childhood at the orphanage, Wilbur trains the orphan as an obstetrician and then comes to love him.

She is the catalyst that transforms Homer from his comfortable but not entirely admirable position at the apple orchard to becoming Dr. Larch's replacement at the orphanage.

Compared to this mighty goddess, who also possessed the earliest temple at Olympia and two of the great fifth and sixth century temples of Paestum, the termagant of Homer and the myths is an " almost ... comic figure " according to Burkert.

One story has it that his passion for Homer was born when he heard a drunkard reciting it at the grocer's.

Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus ' own time, which would place him at around 850 BC ; while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th century BC.

When the Emperor Hadrian asked the Oracle at Delphi about Homer, the Pythia proclaimed that he was Ithacan, the son of Epikaste and Telemachus, from the Odyssey.

Homer is most frequently said to be born in the Ionian region of Asia Minor, at Smyrna, or on the island of Chios, dying on the Cycladic island of Ios.

Internal evidence from the poems gives evidence of familiarity with the topography and place-names of this area of Asia Minor, for example, Homer refers to meadow birds at the mouth of the Caystros, a storm in the Icarian sea, and mentions that women in Maeonia and Caria stain ivory with scarlet.

Wilhelm Dörpfeld suggests that Homer had visited many of the places and regions which he describes in his epics, such as Mycenae, Troy, the palace of Odysseus at Ithaca and more.

Some Ancient Lives depict Homer as a wandering minstrel, like Thamyris or Hesiod, who walked as far as Chalkis to sing at the funeral games of Amphidamas.

He also mentions sacrifices carried out to Homer by the inhabitants of Argos, presumably at another Homereion.

Devotees of Orpheus and Musaeus were probably responsible for precedence being given to their two cult heroes and maybe the Homeridae were responsible in later antiquity for promoting Homer at Hesiod's expense.

This anomaly can be explained by the fact that Hesiod made a conscious effort to compose like an Ionian epic poet at a time when digamma was not heard in Ionian speech, while Homer tried to compose like an older generation of Ionian bards, when it was heard in Ionian speech.

In " Homer the Heretic " ( season four, 1992 ), Homer starts skipping church and Marge tells him " don't make me choose between my man and my God, because you just can't win.

Finally, in the February 6, 2005 episode, " Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass ", Comic Book Guy nonchalantly tells Ned Flanders: " My name is Jeff Albertson, but everyone calls me ' Comic Book Guy '".

" Later in the episode, Homer is reading an issue of Archie Comics and mutters, " Stuck-up Riverdale punks, think they're too good for me!

On an episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson meets the woman who originally recorded the sound for the Road Runner (" they paid me for one beep, then they doubled it up on the soundtrack ").

On " The Simpsons ," Homer Simpson declares " Oh sweet Meerschaum, take me away!

Homer had some wonderful lines, too, such as, ' Take your hands off me.

: Homer: But the TV gave me the impression that --

He noted that " brainy Homer sure does remind me a lot of loquacious Homer from Season Three ’ s ' Bart's Friend Falls in Love '.

Homer says, " you had me at ' hello '," a quote from the film Jerry Maguire ( 1996 ), when Gibson asks for his help on his film.

"[...] My sister-in-law called me up saying that I needed to talk to my nephews about how this was wrong that Homer did ", Vitti said.

Stewart wrote that Hawking's line "" Your theory of a donut-shaped universe intrigues me, Homer.

Authors Paul Broughton and Linda Walker analyzed the episode in their 2009 book Motorcycling and Leisure: Understanding the Recreational PTW Rider, writing: " This episode feeds on the stereotypical image of riders, for example, Homer says: ' Yeah, that's the life for me, Marge.

While reviewing the eleventh season of The Simpsons, DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson commented on " Faith Off ", noting: " If nothing else, I like this one for the sight of Homer with the bucket stuck on his head ; something about seeing him with those little eyeholes entertains me.

During the awards ceremony, Homer complains, " Why won't anyone give me an award?

The New York Times " The Lede ", mentions how Homer is a " good Catholic " according to an article in L ’ Osservatore Romano and offers a clip from this episode in which Homer " memorably " declared, “ I ’ m no missionary, I don ’ t even believe in Jebus !” seconds before uttering the despairing plea, “ Save me, Jebus !”

* When asked if he has always been a " cat person ", Homer replies " To me, Yusuf Islam will always be Cat Stevens.

In The Simpsons episode " Brake My Wife, Please ", Homer Simpson calls out " Save me Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan !!!

He mentions the tales of Ctesias, Iambulus, and Homer and states that " what did surprise me was their supposition that nobody would notice they were lying.

Homer comes very naturally to me: I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing.

The Simpsons writer Al Jean said that " whenever people come up to me and say that The Simpsons is just sort of this outrageous show that has no moral center, I always point them to this, where Homer gets an illegal cable hook-up ( which many people have done in real life ) and suffers enormous consequences.