In accordance with this double meaning, the Aegis appears in works of art sometimes as an animal's skin thrown over the shoulders and arms, and sometimes as a cuirass, with a border of snakes corresponding to the tassels of Homer, usually with the Gorgon head, the gorgoneion, in the centre.

In accordance with this double meaning, the ægis appears in works of art sometimes as an animal's skin thrown over the shoulders and arms, and sometimes as a cuirass, with a border of snakes corresponding to the tassels of Homer, usually with the Gorgon's head, the gorgoneion, in the centre.

On occasion, the names of characters themselves actually seem to have been altered: the spelling of the name of Homer ’ s character Polydamas, Pouludamas, appears to be an alternative rendering of the metrically unviable Poludamas (“ subduer of many ”).

Just as Homer drew extensively on a tradition of oral poetry, sung by wandering minstrels, so Herodotus appears to have drawn on an Ionian tradition of story-telling, collecting and interpreting the oral histories he chanced upon in his travels.

An eponymous bardic guild, known as the Homeridae ( sons of Homer ), or Homeristae (' Homerizers ') appears to have existed there, tracing descent from an ancestor of that name, or upholding their function as rhapsodes or " lay-stitchers " specialising in the recitation of Homeric poetry.

This idea is vague in Homer, but appears in later Greek depictions, and in Greek folklore.

The first record of her name appears in the poems of Homer, but scholars assume that such myths invented or received by the Mycenaean Greeks made their way to Homer.

Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional main character that appears in the animated television series The Simpsons as the patriarch of the eponymous family.

He was voiced by Phil Hartman and first appears in the second season episode " Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment ".

Late mythographers, such as the author of the Bibliotheca and Servius, describe the Thracian king Rhesus, who appears in the Iliad, as son of Euterpe and the river-god Strymon ; Homer calls him son of Eioneus.

He details a previous derivation, which appears in English at least as early as William Gladstone's Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age.

Elegy has been described as " a variation upon the heroic hexameter, in the direction of lyric poetry ," and, in Mimnermus, this takes the form of a variation on Homer, as appears for example in Fragment 1, quoted below, about which one modern scholar had this to say "

Then a man, who appears to be Homer in a very bad disguise, enters Moe's tavern but is savagely beaten and kicked out.

In one episode (" Homer: Bad Man ") Bart claims they come from " a girl's butt " and in " The Wandering Juvie " Bart is told by Gina that there is no such thing as cooties ( as well as a variety of fake " cootie-repelling " type items such as cootie insurance, which Bart appears to have bought ).

In " Homer the Smithers " he is seen in the opening scene with his arm around a woman who appears to be his girlfriend.

" When Mr. Burns appears on a radio show in an attempt to boost his popularity in " Monty Can't Buy Me Love ", Homer tells him that he has a list of jokes explaining the differences between white and black people ; Homer later states, " White guys have names like Lenny, whereas black guys have names like Carl.

The " realms of gold " in the opening line seem to imply worldly riches, until the name of Homer appears ; then they are recognized as literary and cultural realms.

In the works of Homer wanax appears, in the form ánax, mostly in descriptions of Zeus ( ánax andrōn te theōn te, " king of men and of the gods ") and of very few human monarchs, most notably Agamemnon.

After trying to seduce Marge, who is praying for him, Homer falls asleep suddenly and has a dream in which God personally appears to him.

God appears in his dreams again and consoles Homer on the failure of his religion.

Bart, as the raven, appears outside the window, laughing at him, and Homer exclaims that he now hates Halloween.

When Homer is escorted by the hired goons into what appears to be Burns ' conservatory, a Burns-headed bird is sitting in front of the screen, which then flies away.

The ode plays upon the fact that those who are listening to Bacchylides have also read the epics of Homer, and understand the whole story behind this scene that would speak poorly of Achilles if people did not know the role he played in the Trojan war.

A writer for The Grand Rapids Press wrote in 2002 that " we all know who Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are — heck, most Americans probably recognize their pets, Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II ".

In " The Great Wife Hope ", Homer asks Carl if he knows African-American boxer Dedrick Tatum ; Carl takes offense, saying that just because he is African American, he doesn't know all the other African-American citizens in Springfield.

However, when Homer starts writing conspiracy theories about flu shots, he gets sent to an island where people who know too much are imprisoned.

We all know that allowances are to be made ... so far as I am concerned, I would rather set Homer, Klopstock, Schiller to music.

" Homer admits that he does not know his middle name.

The next day, Homer gets an idea from Moe to hire Dexter Colt, a private detective, to find out facts about Lisa so he can appear to know things about her.

Homer and Lisa's relationship is good again as she feels he does know her after all.

The edited versions of the Greek literary canon that we know today, from Homer and Hesiod forward, exist in editions that were collated and corrected by the scholars assembled in the Musaeum at Alexandria.

Homer does admit that he does not know much about his own wife, but despite his faults, Marge reassures him that he really is her true love, not the lovestruck bartender.

In " Homer < sup > 3 </ sup >", as he is about to fall in the black hole Homer says, " There's so much I don't know about astrophysics.

Homer claims not to know what they are talking about, although he is later seen grabbing a bucket of fish heads and heading into the attic.

* Also in the Simpsons, in episode Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes ?, Bart Simpson convinces Homer Simpson into giving a $ 2000 reward to his turned bum brother Herbert by saying: " Dad, you know some shyster is gonna bilk you out of your money, may as well be your brother.

Homer bites into a giraffe, but he does not know that it is made of solid gold, which indicates Homer has won a trip to Africa.

When they arrive, Lisa admits that she only played a trick on Homer and Bart ( though they already know the leprosy is fake because Homer ate one of the sores and found it tasty ); however, they want to stay there on account of it being a " free vacation ", despite the painful electric needle treatments.

* Homer mocks comedian Jimmy Fallon when Bart and Milhouse are laughing over the naughty website, snapping that if they say they are laughing at Fallon, he will know they are lying to him.

" Homer responds to this by saying " I know what you mean.

After venting to her mother about Homer ruining her ' one chance ' to get to know Bergstrom outside of the classroom, Lisa is given permission to invite him to family dinner, only to be shattered when she finds Miss Hoover back and Mr. Bergstrom gone.

However, because the Amish know little about electricity, Bart's treehouse catches fire, and Homer is trapped inside, unconscious.

While in his cell at the police station, Molloy casually mentions that he assumes Homer and the cops probably want to know where he hid all of his loot.

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