The cap implies ennobling effects, as seen in its association with Homer ’ s Ulysses and the mythical twins, Castor and Pollux.

" Mother Simpson " ( season seven, 1995 ) depicts Homer's mother, Mona, as a radical who went into hiding in the mid-1960s following a run-in with the law ; " The Way We Was " ( season two, 1991 ) shows Homer falling in love with Marge Bouvier as a senior at Springfield High School in the 1970s ; and " I Married Marge " ( season three, 1991 ) implies that Marge became pregnant with Bart in 1980.

Lisa is Joan of Arc, who leads the French against the English in the Hundred Years ' War, which Homer implies was also called " Operation Speedy Resolution ".

Aelian relates that Cercidas died expressing his hope of being with Pythagoras of the philosophers, Hecataeus of the historians, Olympus of the musicians, and Homer of the poets, which clearly implies his esteem for these four disciplines.

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 mentions an Achaean attack upon the delta, and Menelaus speaks of the same in Book 4 of the Odyssey to Telemachus when he recounts his own return home from the Trojan War.

They read the Bible, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Scott, and many others, they examined articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Fraser's Magazine, and The Edinburgh Review and read history, geography and biographies.

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.

Catullus's poetry was influenced by the innovative poetry of the Hellenistic Age, and especially by Callimachus and the Alexandrian school, which had propagated a new style of poetry that deliberately turned away from the classical epic poetry in the tradition of Homer.

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

This takes its beginning from Homer ’ s account, but it is then embroidered ; in particular, Circe ’ s love for Ulysses remains unrequited.

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.

* Roisman, Joseph, and translated by J. C Yardley, Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011 ) ISBN 1-4051-2776-7

But the form of the OHG and Gothic words suggests it is also a borrowing, perhaps indeed directly or indirectly from Greek " ἐλέφας " ( elephas ), which in Homer only meant " ivory ", but from Herodotus on the word also referred to the animal.

Parry and Lord also showed that the most likely source for written texts of the epics of Homer was dictation from an oral performance.

* The Greeks ( 1980 ), a cycle of ten plays adapted by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander from the works of Homer, Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, on the Oresteia legend. The Greeks would also have very great orgys, blowjobs.

Twenty out of fifty-eight men's names also known from Homer, including e-ko-to ( Hector ), are Trojan warriors and some, including Hector, are in a servile capacity.

* Roisman, Joseph, and translated by J. C Yardley, Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011 ) ISBN 1-4051-2776-7

The question of the historicity of Homer the individual is known as the " Homeric question "; there is no reliable biographical information handed down from classical antiquity.

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.

These stories were incorporated into the various Lives of Homer compiled from the Alexandrian period onwards.

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.

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.

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

Homer in the company of Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry ( replica of Roman Empire | Roman Imperial mosaic, c. 240 AD, from Vichten )

It is his noble and powerful style, sustained through every change of idea and subject, that finally separates Homer from all forms of ballad poetry and popular epic.

Ancient Greek poetry in general had strong philosophical tendencies and Hesiod, like Homer, demonstrates a deep interest in a wide range of ' philosophical ' issues, from the nature of divine justice to the beginnings of human society.

Aphrodite might then be an equivalent of Rhea, the Earth Mother, whom Homer relocated to Olympus.

Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.

Homer continued his military career as a member of the U. S. Air Force Reserve, initially as a C-141 instructor pilot with the 356th Airlift Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, then subsequently as an Academy Liaison Officer, recruiting potential candidates for both the Air Force Academy and the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps.

Pope's formal education ended at this time, and from then on he mostly educated himself by reading the works of classical writers such as the satirists Horace and Juvenal, the epic poets Homer and Virgil, as well as English authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and John Dryden.

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.

He is then properly introduced in the episode " The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer ".

Homer says nothing at the wedding, but later offhandedly mentions McClure's admission to Marge, who then informs her sister.

In California in 1950, Billy Cook murdered a family of five and a traveling salesman, then kidnapped Deputy Sheriff Homer Waldrip from Blythe, California and ordered him to drive into the desert where he tied Deputy Waldrip up with blanket strips and took his police cruiser, leaving Waldrip to die.

" If such a tapestry had been made at the time, then it could explain how the battles were remembered in such great detail over the 400 or so years between the siege of Troy and the age of Homer.

Andrew R. Johnson ( 1856 – 1933 ), a native of Tallapoosa County, Alabama, was president of Homer State Bank and served on the Claiborne Parish School Board and then in the early 1910s as the mayor of Homer.

If so, Cavendish states, then many others, including Aristotle, Cicero, Homer and St. Augustine, have also been very ill of the same disease.

Gaylord leased the mine to Van Homer & Fellows, then to Eric L. Hedstrum ( of Buffalo, New York ).

He read Homer in twenty-one days, and then went through all the other Greek poets, orators and historians, forming a grammar for himself as he went along.

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 ".

In The Simpsons fifth season's first episode, " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", Homer Simpson, along with finding an original copy of the U. S. Declaration of Independence, an Action Comics 1, and a Stradivarius violin, all of which he throws away, then comes across a full sheet of Inverted Jennys in the 5 cent box at a local swap meet.

Moose then warns Homer to " Stay outta Riverdale!

The real Homer then walks up to the unconscious man's body and remarks, " This man is my exact double!

The main library is the Homer D. Babbidge Library, formerly the Nathan Hale Library, at the Storrs campus, which underwent a $ 3 million renovation that was completed in 1998, making it then the largest public research library in New England.

The episode's subplot follows Homer after he encounters and then steals hundreds of pounds of sugar he finds at the site of Hans Moleman's truck accident.

To claim the seat Fulbright defeated sitting Governor Homer Martin Adkins and then the Republican Victor Wade of Batesville.