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Today, according to land economist Homer Hoyt, shopping centers and their associated parking lots cover some 46,000 acres of land, which is almost exactly the total land area in all the nation's Central Business Districts put together.
One of the greatest Homerists of our time, Frederick M. Combellack, argues that when it is assumed The Iliad and The Odyssey are oral poems, the postulated single redactor called Homer cannot be either credited with or denied originality in choice of phrasing.
The quest of the historical Homer is likely never to have further success ; ;
In Homer, Aphrodite, venturing into battle to protect her son, Aeneas, is wounded by Diomedes and returns to her mother, to sink down at her knee and be comforted.
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.
Like Achilles, he is represented ( although not by Homer ) as living after his death in the island of Leuke at the mouth of the Danube.
Lastly, his Mouseion ( a word invoking the Muses ) seems to have contained the narrative of the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, of which the version that has survived is the work of a grammarian in the time of Hadrian, based on Alcidamas.
However, this is clearly not the manner in which Homer uses the term.
Homer is assumed to refer to this fortification when he mentions the " strong-built House of Erechtheus " ( Odyssey 7. 81 ).
The Aegis (), as stated in the Iliad, is the shield or buckler or breastplate, of Athena or Zeus, which, according to Homer was fashioned by Hephaestus.
The original text is found on the preface Blake printed for inclusion with Milton, a Poem, following the lines beginning " The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato & Cicero, which all Men ought to contemn: ..."
* 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.
Another example is an episode of The Simpsons entitled " Homer at the Bat " which takes its title from the poem.
Homeric nod ( sometimes heard as ' Even Homer nods ') is a continuity error.
Those oft are Stratagems which Errors seem, Nor is it Homer Nods, but We that Dream.
This takes its beginning from Homer ’ s account, but it is then embroidered ; in particular, Circe ’ s love for Ulysses remains unrequited.
Despite its explicitly Christian nature, Clement's work draws on Stoic philosophy and pagan literature ; Homer alone is cited over sixty times in the work.
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.
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.
He is presumed missing by the military, but Homer and Candy both believe he is dead and move on with their lives.
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.
Daedalus is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne.
Daedalus ' appearance in Homer is in an extended simile, " plainly not Homer's invention ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " he is a point of comparison and so he belongs in stories which Homer's audience already recognized.

Homer and deeply
Although his elderly rancher-father Homer ( Melvyn Douglas ) is a deeply principled man, none of his ethics have rubbed off on Hud ; he's ( maybe ) the spoiled youngest son and baby-brother of Homer's eldest son, Norman.
Moreover the militaristic verses borrowed from Homer by the son of Lamachus are a dramatic indication that war is deeply rooted in culture and that it still commands the imagination of a new generation.
They agreed that the following night they would meet again, but Homer did not come for Marge, who waited the entire night and left in the morning deeply saddened.

Homer and saddened
Lisa is initially saddened that she and her father have lost the new connection they shared, but cheers up when she finds a note written by Homer before the operation, explaining that " while is taking the coward's way out ," he now understands what it is like to be smart like Lisa, and how much more he appreciates her because of this.
Homer immediately falls into boredom, but he perks up when Marge appears on stage and becomes saddened over the way Stanley treats Blanche.
Homer is later saddened by this, and says, " Oh, I don't like this new director's cut!

Homer and see
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.
Instead they have brought to the fore the literary qualities of the History, which they see as belonging to narrative tradition of Homer and Hesiod and as concerned with the concepts of justice and suffering found in Plato and Aristotle and problematized in Aeschylus and Sophocles.
* A scholar who holds that the works of Homer were composed by a single individual ( see Unitarianism ( Homer ))
In the episode " Duffless ", we see Wiggum misuse police terminology, phoning Marge Simpson to inform her Homer had been found DOA, only to correct himself and say he was DWI.
The spacecraft was carrying an ant colony to see if they could be trained to sort tiny screws in space, but were released by Homer by accident.
Homer Simpson and his son Bart, who are at the race track in hope of earning some money for Christmas presents, see this and decide to adopt the dog.
* Homer ’ s Mentor: Duties Fulfilled or Misconstrued — An on-line version of Andy Roberts ' paper ( see the References section )
For more a detailed history of the surrounding area see the entry for Homer Township and Clarendon Township.
Mimnermus in turn exerted a strong influence on Hellenistic poets such as Callimachus and thus also on Roman poets such as Propertius, who even preferred him to Homer for his eloquence on love themes ( see Comments by other poets below ).
The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, note: " It's very strange to see Homer pawning the TV set in an attempt to save the family ; if this episode had come later Marge would surely have taken this stance.
In 1786 Horne Tooke conferred perpetual fame upon his benefactor's country house by adopting, as a second title of his elaborate philological treatise of " Epea Pteroenta " — the expression ἔπεα πτερόεντα, épea pteróenta ( see " Winged words "), comes from Homerthe more popular though misleading title of The Diversions of Purley.
: Homer: It'll be great to see the old gang again.
* Bryce Drew ( born 1974 ), American basketball player and coach ; son of Homer Drew and brother of Scott Drew ( see below )
from 1934 ; see below ), uses the concept of paideia to trace the development of Greek thought and education from Homer to Demosthenes.
In " Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play ", Lenny and Carl see Homer and Marge kiss, prompting Lenny to remark, " Remember when we used to kiss like that.
On September 28, 2012 PNC Park saw its first no hitter when Reds pitcher Homer Bailey no-hit the Pirates 1-0 PNC Park has yet to see a no hitter and / or perfect game thrown by a Pirate.
For the football player of the same name see Homer Jones ( American football ).
For the economist, see Homer Jones ( economist ).
For further information, see the section on Blackie in English translations of Homer.
One is that Mycenaean literature, like the works of Homer and other epic poems, was passed on orally, since the Linear B syllabary is not well-suited to recording the sounds of Greek ( see phonemic principle ).
Homer hates church, Marge wants the kids to see Homer as an example, and everyone pulls together in the end.

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