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.

) Later writers describe his lameness as the consequence of his second fall, while Homer makes him lame and weak from his birth.

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.

Also, in the popular television sitcom The Simpsons, Homer Simpson's love affair with doughnuts makes a prominent on-going joke as well as the focal point of more than a few episodes.

Homer makes her the transfiguration of Ino.

Marion Zimmer Bradley's " The Firebrand " makes her an Amazon princess — Homer does name the Amazons among the Trojan allies, interpreting her name as ' she fights like a man.

Since Homer, in the Iliad, makes no reference to his ancestry ( except to note that he is the son of Panthous ( Πάνθοος ) and Phrontis ( Φροντίς ), he is apparently a commoner, or in any event not a member of the royal house of Troy.

It is Augustine ( the most active volcano of the eastern Aleutian arc ), which makes life nasty in Nanwalek, Port Graham, Seldovia and Homer, when it erupts, as it most recently has done in 1986 and 2006.

Homer makes an appointment at the clinic and pays for it by pawning their television.

** 2002: " Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge ", where Fat Tony requests the song on the radio, and Homer begins singing along ( although he more or less makes up his own lyrics )

Later, Thucydides claims that since Homer never makes reference to a united Greek state, the pre-Hellenic nations must have been so disjointed that they could not organize properly to launch an effective campaign.

Thucydides makes sure to inform his reader that he, unlike Homer, is not a poet prone to exaggeration, but instead a historian, whose stories may not give " momentary pleasure ," but " whose intended meaning will be challenged by the truth of the facts.

" By distancing himself from the storytelling practices of Homer, Thucydides makes it clear that while he does consider mythology and epics to be evidence, these works cannot be given much credibility, and that it takes an impartial and empirically minded historian, such as himself, to accurately portray the events of the past.

They say Maira was a daughter of Atlas, and Homer makes mention of her in the passage where Odysseus tells to Alkinous his journey to Hades, and of those whose ghosts he beheld there.

* In The Simpsons episode Homer Vs Patty and Selma, Bart claims he can have fun all by himself, he makes a hand puppet, which he then asks ' S ' awriiight?

Like Géricault, Homer makes a black man the pivotal figure in the scene, though here he is the vessel's sole occupant.

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.

Thorne's bald head makes him instantly recognisable and he is often referred to as the " Homer Simpson of Snooker ", and he has become a popular senior character in the game, commentating on snooker for television on the BBC and Sky Sports.

Homer then starts his own religion tailored to his own personal tastes, and makes up false holidays to get out of work ( Such as the Feast of Maximum Occupancy ).

Homer becomes despondent about losing his secret club and replaces every member with monkeys which he gets drunk and makes act out civil war battles.

Homer only makes matters worse when he tells her about the " Simpson butt ", something that all Simpsons have.

* The Simpsons makes a reference to the show in an episode in which Homer complains about his family on a program called " Taxicab Conversations.

Nibbles makes it to Ned and Homer, breaking the window and reviving them: they crash into a salt silo, melting the snow around the school and badly rusting the car but freeing the kids in the process.

When Quimby sees Chief Wiggum trying to shoot a Piñata with a shotgun, he dismisses Wiggum and ( in a fit of rage ) makes Homer the chief of police.

It is noticeable that there is no mention of these Heraclidae or their invasion in Homer or Hesiod.

However, Homer does not mention Midas or Gordias, while instead mentioning two other famed Phrygian kings, Mygdon and Otreus.

It is noticeable that there is no mention of these Heracleidae or their invasion in Homer or Hesiod.

The number of Niobids mentioned most usually numbered twelve ( Homer ) or fourteen ( Euripides and pseudo-Apollodorus ), but other sources mention twenty, four ( Herodotus ), or eighteen ( Sappho ).

The necklace that Pausanias was shown was of green stones with gold, which made him skeptical of its being the one mentioned by Homer ( Odyssey xi. 327 ), for he noted other occasions in the Odyssey where necklaces made of gold and stones mention the stones.

It is noticeable that there is no dominate mention of these Heraclids or their invasion in Homer or Hesiod.

The Greeks of Homer just used their ships as transport for land armies, but in 664 BC there is a mention of a battle at sea between Corinth and its colony city Corcyra.

Homer, Horace, Virgil, and Pliny mention the linden tree and its virtues.

Both Plato and Homer mention the sponge as being used for bathing in ancient Greece and this may represent an early reference to commercial freediving to obtain them ; the island of Kalymnos was a main centre of diving for sponges.

One critic wrote, " Winslow Homer is one of those few young artists who make a decided impression of their power with their very first contributions to the Academy ... He at this moment wields a better pencil, models better, colors better, than many whom, were it not improper, we could mention as regular contributors to the Academy.

Their first mention is by Homer, in his list of Trojans allies in the Iliad, and according to whom the Mysians fought in the Trojan War on the side of Troy, under the command of Chromis and Ennomus the Auger, and were lion-hearted spearmen who fought with their bare hands.

The earliest surviving mention of Eretria was by Homer ( Iliad 2. 537 ), who listed Eretria as one of the Greek cities which sent ships to the Trojan War.

In the Odyssey xi, Homer does not specifically mention the Gorgon Medusa:

Homer does not mention any children by Calypso.

Homer ( Iliad, book II, line 848 ) speaks of Paeonians from the Axios fighting on the side of the Trojans, but the Iliad does not mention whether the Paeonians were kin to the Trojans.

Hyperbole and epic lists are other major features in this chanson: the poet takes care to mention every knightly name that would cause a rustle of recognition among his hearers, in a tradition as old as Homer, with the result that the Chanson d ' Antioche was taken as history by heralds and genealogists of a later generation.

Greek writers Aristophanes and Homer both mention hairdressing in their writings.

When he asks about the name inscribed on her ball, she tells him that Homer is the ball's name, neglecting to mention that she is married.

" Ryan Budke of TV Squad listed " Homer < sup > 3 </ sup >" as the fourth best Treehouse of Horror segment and gave honorable mention to " Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace ".

After listening to Lenny mention he had a small part in the horror movie The Redeadening as a gardener, Homer takes the kids to see the movie.

of Homer, and received positive mention in I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide.