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.

In Odyssey Homer carries the old belief to the ideal island for mortals Scheria, the imaginary perfect world that was offered to the future emigrants.

Homer Park, north of the village on the Salt Fork creek, offered swimming, food, baseball, movies and even a small zoo.

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.

Acclaimed as " second Homer ", he was offered scholarships to the universities at Oxford and Berlin but declined both.

" For Schubert, who lived a life suspended between the lyrical, romantic, charming and the dramatic, chaotic, and depressive, the string quartet offered a medium " to reconcile his essentially lyric themes with his feeling for dramatic utterance within a form that provided the possibility of extreme color contrasts ," writes music historian Homer Ulrich.

It was fun to see Homer treated like a party god, and this offered a few nice moments.

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.

DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson said it was " probably the best episode " of the season, and commented that " Dancin ' Homer " offered a " consistently satisfying show.

They are often quick in pointing out how close he has come to infidelity, and have unsuccessfully offered to help Marge find a replacement for Homer, although Selma eventually gave in and helped Marge find Homer after seeing how truly unhappy she was.

He went on to say, " The show offered many other good moments, and it helped expand the Lisa / Homer relationship neatly.

The parts in which Homer developed his car were also hilarious and offered some of the show ’ s best bits.

Groening said he had always wanted to write an episode in which Homer is offered a glamorous life, other than being with his family, but then chooses his family over glamor at the end.

This pathetic sight prompts Homer to help him get his job back.

Homer, discovering there is no money for Christmas presents and not wanting to worry the family, takes a job as a shopping mall Santa Claus at the suggestion of his friend Barney Gumble.

Homer searches for a new job without success.

Homer, torn between his principles and his livelihood, tearfully tells his followers that they must fight their battles alone from this point on and takes the job.

In the early years of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson generally loathed Ned, because Ned's family, job, health and self-discipline are of higher quality than he could ever hope to attain himself.

Later, Homer challenges Hawk to a skateboard match and does a good job, thanks to the skateboard.

His main job is helping out in his father's business, a motor court, where Homer also resides.

Safe again, Homer resigns as police chief and offers the job to the first person who comes along, which is Wiggum ( who notes that an identical situation is how he became chief in the first place ).

When Homer sees what a good job he did in the commercial, even though no one read the script, he plans on becoming an actor.

The episode explores the comic possibilities of a realistic character with a strong work ethic hired for a job where he has to work alongside a man like Homer.

Homer decides to get another job, but he can not have his choice of starring on Friends as Rachel ’ s Irish cousin, and is unable to get a new job.

Homer gets a new job with Burns as a " freelance consultant " and then wonders what the lump on his neck is.

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

Homer does an excellent job of motivating his team, but notices after a few days that they are starting to get overworked.

The second involved Homer getting a new job for an employee-friendly, silicon valley type, modern boss who would stand in contrast with Mr. Burns, an authoritarian, 19th century style boss.

He sees Homer with hair and, mistaking him for a young go-getter, chooses Homer for the job.

At home later that night, Homer confesses to Marge he is afraid that his life has returned to a dead-end job, that his kids will be disappointed because he can no longer buy the things for them he promised he would, and most of all that Marge will no longer love him as much.

However, Marge reminds Homer that his safety inspector job has always brought food to the table, and that the kids will get over not being spoiled.

When asked about his job in America, reasoning that he has no chance of being outed, Homer claims he is a Chinese acrobat.

Homer does not want to kill his wife ( or himself, an alternative he is given but quickly rejects ), and he tries to plead to God that he wants to get out of the job after leading Him to believe that he killed Marge.

Homer however, becomes upset with Marge's petty attitude ( especially regarding that she would not let him spend even false money to buy a single beer ) and tries to argue with Marge, remarking that he has the right to use at least a part of the money since that he brings it home, but she denies his request, retorting that he does nothing in his job.

Homer applies for a job as a guard, but is rejected after Otto switches his urine sample with Homer's and Mr. Burns mistakes Otto's sample for Homer's.