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.

Later, in Book 17, Homer gives Menelaus an extended aristeia as the hero retrieves the corpse of Patroclus from the battlefield.

In the Odyssey, Homer says nothing of their origin or names, but gives the number of the Sirens as two.

Later, Howard gives Homer the inspiration to spend more time with his kids and offers him some money that Homer refuses at first but then takes.

Neither Homer nor Virgil gives the reader any foreshadowing of Diomedes's death except for a passage in the Iliad in which Dione, Aphrodite's mother, comforts the goddess of love ( after she has been injured by Diomedes ), telling her daughter that " the man who fights the gods does not live long " and will not be welcomed home from war by his children on his lap ( 5. 407-409 ).

Homer gives a literary account of love never expressed: while she is presented as a potential love interest to Odysseus – she says to her friend that she would like her husband to be like him, and her father tells Odysseus he would let him marry her – nothing would result between the pair.

Homer gives him the epithet " the peer of murderous Ares ".

Homer gives no foreshadowing of Polydamas's final fate, nor is he mentioned in most of the later poems dealing with the aftermath of the war, leaving the reader to infer that he perished in the general slaughter after the fall of Troy to the Greek forces.

Homer gives a heartfelt speech to justify Larry's actions and Mr. Burns forgives them for the hoax, but explains he cannot be the father whom Larry needs.

Hawk reluctantly agrees and gives Homer a modified skateboard, which does all the stunt work.

Homer describes the Phaeacian ships as fast as a falcon and gives a vivid description of the ship's departure.

Hesiod in his Works and Days gives detailed descriptions of grape harvests and wine making techniques, and there are also many references in Homer.

The style is eclectic ; in the Age of Homer the types and the treatment are derived from Greek marbles and vases ; then in the Tower of Babel the severity of the antique gives place to the suavity of the Italian renaissance ; while in the Crusades the composition is let loose into modern romanticism, and so the manner descends into the midst of the 20th century.

A heat wave in Springfield leads Bart and Lisa to persuade Homer into getting a swimming pool ; to avoid months of nagging, he gives in easily.

Silverton, Oregon gives tribute to Davenport during its annual Homer Davenport Community Festival, held in August.

Later, as Marge is about to leave the house, Homer gives her some pepper spray and some tips on how to handle an attacker.

For Christmas, Carl gives Homer a DVD player and the first season of Magnum, P. I.

However, Homer forgets he is Lenny's secret Santa and gives him a pack of Certs out of desperation.

Instead of giving bonuses, Mr. Burns gives everyone a cafeteria voucher and Homer a Joe DiMaggio rookie baseball card for Bart.

To get money for Christmas shopping, Homer gives the card to Comic Book Guy, who gives Homer everything in his cash register.

These include an encounter with Homer before he was famous, in which Gabrielle encourages his storytelling aspirations ; the fall of Troy ; and the capture of Caesar by pirates, with Xena cast as the pirate leader.

The Greek poet Homer mentioned a kind of blood sausage in the Odyssey, Epicharmus wrote a comedy titled The Sausage, and Aristophanes ' play The Knights is about a sausage-vendor who is elected leader.

The most significant of these new staff members were Homer Rodeheaver, an exceptional song leader and music director who worked with the Sundays for almost twenty years, and Virginia Healey Asher, who ( besides regularly singing duets with Rodeheaver ) directed the women's ministries, especially the evangelization of young working women.

John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers and founder and leader of the CIO, spoke for the UAW in those negotiations ; UAW President Homer Martin was sent on a speaking tour to keep him out of the way.

Dubinsky was opposed to any form of collaboration with communists and had offered financial support to Homer Martin, the controversial president of the United Auto Workers, who was being advised by Jay Lovestone, a former leader of the Communist Party turned anti-communist.

Homer is crowned as the new leader of The Stonecutters.

Homer learns from the organization's leader, Number Two, that a story he wrote about flu vaccinations containing mind-control serum was true.

* The Number One ( Il Numero Uno ), a very old disabled man ( he has memories from Ancient Greece and claims to have met characters such as Homer and Robespierre ), is the supreme leader of group TNT.

Goodacre's father, Homer Glen Maxey, who died in July 1990, was a prominent Lubbock builder, developer and civic leader.

Dubinsky was opposed to any form of collaboration with communists and had offered financial support to Homer Martin, the controversial president of the United Auto Workers, who was being advised by Jay Lovestone, a former leader of the Communist Party turned anti-communist, in his campaign to drive his opponents out of the union.

In " King Homer ", the tribal leader is heard saying " Mosi Tatupu, Mosi Tatupu ", which means they will sacrifice the blue-haired lady.

When they demand that Homer point them towards Earth's leader, Homer tells them about the then-upcoming election and that the winner could be either Bill Clinton or Bob Dole.

Homer destroys the scarecrow, and the crows eventually see Homer as their leader, following him everywhere and doing his bidding.

Homer tracks them down and scuffles with Meathook, the leader of the gang.

Homer takes on the role of tribe leader, but when he fails in his leadership skills, Marge takes over.

A neighborhood watch group is created, and the members elect Homer as their leader.

Early on in the production stage, the writers decided that the leader of the Shelbyville children, Shelby, and his father should be modeled after Bart and Homer.

Homer in the Iliad seems to refer to two Lycias ( in 2. 876-77, 5. 479 ; Sarpedon is a leader of " distant Lycia " while in 2. 824ff.

The language used by Homer is an archaic version of Ionic Greek, with admixtures from certain other dialects, such as Aeolic Greek.

R. F. Littledale criticized the Sun myth theory when he illustrated that Max Müller on his own principles was himself only a Solar myth, whilst Alfred Lyall delivered a still stronger attack on the same theory and its assumption that tribal gods and heroes, such as those of Homer, were mere reflections of the Sun myth by proving that the gods of certain Rajput clans were really warriors who founded the clans not many centuries ago, and were the ancestors of the present chieftains.

* Philosopher John Searle suggests that the Western canon can be roughly defined as " a certain Western intellectual tradition that goes from, say, Socrates to Wittgenstein in philosophy, and from Homer to James Joyce in literature ..."

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.

In order to complete missions, players must do certain things ( such as protecting Krusty the Clown from a fan mob by driving him away, and getting Homer to his workplace unnoticed ).

Evola's systematic and detailed references to ancient and modern texts make it difficult to speak about influences, though affinities could exist between Evola and Plato, Oswald Spengler, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Arthur de Gobineau, Friedrich Nietzsche, Meister Eckhart, Homer, Jacob Boehme, René Guénon and certain Catholic thinkers like Juan Donoso Cortés and Joseph de Maistre.

A longer Epic Cycle, as described by the 9th-century CE scholar and clergyman Photius in his Bibliotheca, also included the Titanomachy and the Theban Cycle, which in turn comprised the Oedipodea, the Thebaid, the Epigoni and the Alcmeonis ; however, it is certain that none of the cyclic epics ( other than Homer ) survived to Photius ' day, and it is likely that Proclus and Photius were not referring to a canonical collection.

The most remarkable, contained in his Chronologiae ex nummis antiquis restitutae ( 1696 ) and Prolegomena ad censuram veterum scriptorum, was to the effect that, with the exception of the works of Homer, Herodotus and Cicero, the Natural History of Pliny, the Georgics of Virgil, and the Satires and Epistles of Horace, all the ancient classics of Greece and Rome were spurious, having been manufactured by monks of the 13th century, under the direction of a certain Severus Archontius.

Homer receives a cryptic message in the newspaper informing him to come to a certain place at midnight, and soon discovers that the person who wrote the message is his mother, Mona Simpson.

The scene in which Homer and Marge get spanked by Springfield's citizens as part of their punishment was also based on an alternative sentencing, in which the sentenced had to wear certain shirts or signs that indicated whether they, for example, had not paid taxes.

The songwriter has focused his attention essentially on the crucial fight between Hector and Achilles, has paraphrased some passages of the poem adapting them to the melodic structure with a certain fluency and partly reinterpreting them, but never altering or upsetting Homer ’ s storyline.