A relationship between objects of art described by Homer and the Mycenaean treasure was generally allowed, and a correct opinion prevailed that, while certainly posterior, the civilization of the Iliad was reminiscent of the Mycenaean.

Both Homer and Hesiod described a flat disc cosmography on the shield of Achilles.

The formative influence played by the Homeric epics in shaping Greek culture was widely recognized, and Homer was described as the teacher of Greece.

It is best known for being the focus of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.

It is best known for being the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.

Hesiod described one group of cyclopes and the epic poet Homer described another, though other accounts have also been written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic poet Virgil.

In the Odyssey of Homer, Ithaca is described thus ( 13. 21-27 )

Homer is one of the most influential fictional characters on television, having been described by the British newspaper The Sunday Times as " the greatest comic creation of time ".

In Homer ’ s Odyssey, Elysium is described as a paradise:

Another fringe theory mentions Walcheren as the seat of Hades, described by Homer.

Their plan, or construction, of a pile of mountains atop which they would confront the gods is described differently according to the author ( including Homer, Vergil, and Ovid ), and occasionally changed by translators.

A relationship between objects of art described by Homer and the Mycenaean treasure was generally allowed, and a correct opinion prevailed that, while certainly posterior, the civilization of the Iliad was reminiscent of the Mycenaean.

If there is parody in the Satyricon it is not about the main characters — Encolpius, Giton and Ascyltos — but of the described social reality, and the literary genres of certain famous poets and writers, Homer, Plato, Virgil and Cicero included.

The events described probably occurred around 1200 BC, but Homer is thought to have composed this epic poem around 700 BC ; so exactitude must remain suspect.

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 "

which Burns described as a " a couplet worthy of Homer ".

Groening described the inspiration for Flanders as " just a guy who was truly nice, that Homer had no justifiable reason to loathe, but then did ".

It is known from artistic evidence on pottery that the sport existed in the Mycenaean world, but the first literary reference to a chariot race is the one described by Homer, at the funeral games of Patroclus.

In Greek mythology the word describes a tribe of dwarfs, first described by Homer, the ancient Greek poet, and reputed to live in India and south of modern day Ethiopia.

Playwrights such as Homer, Sophocles and Euripides described madmen driven insane by the gods, imbalanced humors or circumstances.

Early examples are known such as those held for Patroclus by Achilles, described by Homer and in Book 5 of Virgil's Aeneid, in which Aeneas organizes athletic contests on the anniversary of his father's death.

* In June 1906, James Homer Wright published an article that described how he stained and studied bone marrow with descriptions of what are now known as megakaryocytes and platelets.

This is the type of helmet which is described by Homer several hundred years later.

Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.

Homer is somewhat vague about the precise manner of Ajax's death but does ascribe it to his loss in the dispute over Achilles's shield: when Odysseus visits Hades, he begs the soul of Ajax to speak to him, but Ajax, still resentful over the old quarrel, refuses and descends silently back into Erebus.

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.

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.

They lie to the family about Angel's parentage, claiming that Homer decided to adopt him.

After Homer leaves the orphanage, so does she in an effort to find him.

In his biography in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Suetonius attests to Domitian's ability to quote the important poets and writers such as Homer or Virgil on appropriate occasions, and describes him as a learned and educated adolescent, with elegant conversation.

In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.

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.

" Homer " is a Greek name, attested in Aeolic-speaking areas, and although nothing definite is known about him, traditions arose purporting to give details of his birthplace and background.

The satirist Lucian, in his True History, describes him as a Babylonian called Tigranes, who assumed the name Homer when taken " hostage " ( homeros ) by the Greeks.

Ancient authors credited him and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs.

) Later writers describe his lameness as the consequence of his second fall, while Homer makes him lame and weak from his birth.

During his time at Rutgers, Friedman became influenced by two economics professors, Arthur F. Burns and Homer Jones, who convinced him that modern economics could help end the Great Depression.

Petrarch had acquired a copy, which he did not entrust to Leontius, but he knew no Greek ; Homer, Petrarch said, " was dumb to him, while he was deaf to Homer ".

In Roman literature it is found as early as Ennius, who, in a lost passage of his Annals, told how he had seen Homer in a dream, who had assured him that the same soul which had animated both the poets had once belonged to a peacock.

She was at first wary of Homer, but agreed to go to the prom with him, although she ended up going with Artie Ziff.

Marge admits that she " put up with a lot in marriage ," and has left Homer or thrown him out of the house on several occasions.

The next day, Homer is dirty and disheveled, and begs Marge to take him back, saying the one thing he can offer her that nobody else can is " complete and utter dependence.

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.

" Hence it often means the life of a man, as in Homer, where one's life ( aion ) is said to leave him or to consume away ( Iliad v. 685 ; Odyssey v. 160 ).