He has also been seen representing a Solar Power company in The Last Temptation of Homer.

In 1863, a company of volunteers ineligible for conscription was organized in Homer to promote the war effort.

The " old " Homer mills was built by a stock company of Milton Barney, Walter Wright, Nelson D. Skeeles, Asabel Finch, Jr, and Mr Platt in 1837-1838.

In the episode, Homer becomes ashamed of his family after a catastrophic company picnic and decides to enroll them in therapy.

Homer takes his family to a company picnic given by his boss, Mr. Burns, and hopes they will not embarrass him.

Carl often serves as a taciturn straight man to Homer and company, because of his harsh opinions of others, as seen in " Pygmoelian " when he makes everyone in Moe's Tavern cry and, breaking the fourth wall, explains: " See, this is why I don't talk much.

With the company struggling, he found himself with an offer from Homer McKee.

The line name and design is still owned by the Homer Laughlin China Company of Newell, West Virginia, which was the original company that produced and marketed it.

The Gamers was a wargaming company founded and run by Dean Essig in Homer, Illinois.

The entire company slowly falls asleep, with the last being Susanna Centlivre ( who had attacked Pope's translation of Homer before its publication ) and " Norton Defoe " ( another false identity created by a political author who claimed to be the " true son " of Daniel Defoe ).

However, the mail-order company sends him vocabulary builder tapes instead, and Homer gets fatter and fatter while his vocabulary increases, through hypnopædia.

It is a huge success, and inspired by this, Barney Gumble starts a rival company and quickly puts Homer out of business.

The Springfield Police Department are powerless to the riots that follow, prompting Homer, dissatisfied with the police's incompetence, to start his own security company called SpringShield.

Homer forms his own security company called " SpringShield.

" When meeting the other writers, Gould pitched an episode in which Homer becomes the owner of a security company, which then became " Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge.

In another scene in the episode, Homer shows his family an advertisement for his security company.

In another scene, Homer, in the Springfield church, attempts to recruit companions for his security company.

Patricia A. Stryker ( born 1956 ) is the granddaughter of Homer Stryker, surgeon and founder of Stryker Corporation, a medical technology company.

As Homer and Bart are watching The Itchy & Scratchy Show, Marge tells them that the telephone company has charged the family hundreds of dollars for making phone calls to Brazil.

Homer and Marge decide to visit the company, thinking there has been a mistake.

After giving Homer a tour of the company, Scorpio tells him that his job is to motivate the employees in the nuclear division.

Smithers gleefully prepares to fire Homer for the fraud, but Karl takes the blame for Homer and writes the $ 1000 check to repay the company.

Marge finally sees the doll choking Homer ( none of the family believed Homer before ) and calls the " KrustyCo " toy company for help.

The Halloween costumes include Homer as Julius Caesar, Marge as Cleopatra, Bart as Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange, Lisa as the Statue of Liberty, Milhouse as Radioactive Man, Martin as Calliope, Nelson as a pirate, Janey as a fairy, Wendell as an astronaut, Lewis as Frankenstein's monster, Richard as a vampire and Ned Flanders as a headless zombie.

This may take the form of a purpose ( as in Milton, who proposed " to justify the ways of God to men "); of a question ( as in the Iliad, which Homer initiates by asking a Muse to sing of Achilles ' anger ); or of a situation ( as in the Song of Roland, with Charlemagne in Spain ).

Protagoras criticized Homer for making the word for " wrath " feminine ( Aristotle, Sophistic Refutations 14 ) and for praying to the Muse with an imperative ( ibid.

The poet invokes the Muse in his second prologue, saying that in emulation of Homer he will skip over the first six years of the war, and compares at length Dionysus ' Indian War with the deeds of Perseus, Minos, and Heracles, concluding that Dionysus is better than the heroes.

Seeing then that it is not by art that they compose and utter so many fine things about the deeds of men — as you do about Homer — but by a divine dispensation, each is able only to compose that to which the Muse has stirred him, this man dithyrambs, another laudatory odes, another dance-songs, another epic or else iambic verse ; but each is at fault in any other kind.

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.

Bust of Homer, the ancient Greek epic poet.

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.

Homer also altered the forms of words to allow them to fit the hexameter, typically by using a dialectal form: ptolis is an epic form used instead of the Attic polis wherever it is necessary for the meter.

In spite of the occasional exceptions in early epic, most of the later rules of hexameter composition have their origins in the methods and practices of Homer.

In the Western classical tradition, Homer (;, Hómēros ) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet.

800 BC by one man, probably Homer, in order to write down oral epic poetry.

Some of the main trends in modern Homeric scholarship have been, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Analysis and Unitarianism ( see Homeric Question ), schools of thought which emphasized on the one hand the inconsistencies in, and on the other the artistic unity of, Homer ; and in the 20th century and later Oral Theory, the study of the mechanisms and effects of oral transmission, and Neoanalysis, the study of the relationship between Homer and other early epic material.

Aristotle remarks in his Poetics that Homer was unique among the poets of his time, focusing on a single unified theme or action in the epic cycle.

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.

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.

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.

The Odyssey (, Odysseia ) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

Dactylic hexameter was the traditional meter of Greek epic poetry, the earliest extant examples of which are the works of Homer and Hesiod.

These authors, in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato, and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, analyzed political systems philosophically, going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides.

The most important literary sources are the two epic poems traditionally credited to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey

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.

Virgil made use of several models in the composition of his epic ; Homer the preeminent classical epicist is everywhere present, but Virgil also makes especial use of the Latin poet Ennius and the Hellenistic poet Apollonius of Rhodes among the various other writers he alludes to.

Among the Berliners they encounter in their wanderings is an old man named Homer, who, unlike the Greek poet of war Homer, dreams of an " epic of peace.

Somewhere in the shades of the centuries between the fall of the Mycenaean civilization and the end of the Greek Dark Ages, the original Mycenean religion persisted and adapted until it finally emerged in the stories of human devotion, apostasy, and divine capriciousness that exists in the two great epic poems of Homer.

In his epic Odyssey, Homer refers to this Atlas as " one who knows the depths of the whole sea, and keeps the tall pillars who hold heaven and earth asunder ".

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.