The Odyssey of Homer referred to a gift given to Helen by the Egyptian queen, a drug bringing oblivion.

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.

In its earliest form, " grammar school " referred to a school that taught students to read, scan, interpret, and declaim Greek and Latin poets ( including Homer, Virgil, Euripides, Ennius, and others ).

* The American author O. Henry humorously referred to a book by " Homer KM " with the character " Ruby Ott " in his short story " The Handbook of Hymen.

Pitt is referred to in the Simpsons episode " Homer at the Bat ", where Barney and guest star Wade Boggs get into a bar fight debating the greatest British prime minister of all time.

He is often referred to by Homer as the youngest amongst the Achaean warrior-kings, and yet the most powerful fighter, second only to Achilles.

In Greek mythology, Polites () referred to two different people, both of whom feature as minor characters in the epics by Homer.

* The Trojan War tapestry referred to by Homer in Book III of the Iliad, where Iris disguises herself as Laodice and finds Helen " working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and Achaeans, that Ares had made them fight for her sake.

In the episode of The Simpsons entitled " Homer vs. Patty and Selma ", characters incorrectly referred to The 2000 Year Old Man as " The 2000-Pound Man thing " and " The 2000-Dollar Man thing ".

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 first referred to the island as Psyra.

After the book had gained wide readership, the term " Ugly American " came to be used to refer to the " loud and ostentatious " type of visitor in another country, rather than the " plain looking folks, who are not afraid to ' get their hands dirty ' like Homer Atkins " to whom the book itself referred.

* Alector, father of one of the Argonauts, referred to by Homer as " Alectryon "

During construction, the bridge was referred to as the Homer Skyway, taking its name from the lift bridge that the new skyway was to replace.

The Rich Texan also makes his debut appearance in this episode, referred to as " Senator " by Homer.

Dörpfeld may also have felt that the difficulty of crossing the narrow causeway was referred to in Homer ’ s enigmatic and repeated jest, “ For nowise, methinks, didst thou come hither on foot .” Homer, Odyssey 14. 190 ,, 16. 224.

The first appearance of writing tablets in written Greek appears in Homer — an Homeric example in which writing is referred to — in the narrated tale of Bellerophon ( Iliad vi. 155 – 203 ) which introduces the trope of the " fatal " or " Bellerophontic " letter, with its message sealed within the folded tablets: " Kill the bearer of this ".

According to tradition, this is the cave referred to by Homer in The Odyssey.

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.

As a young man, Homer befriends a young couple, Candy Kendall and Wally Worthington, who come to St.

" Samuel Butler argues, based on literary observations, that a young Sicilian woman wrote the Odyssey ( but not the Iliad ), an idea further pursued by Robert Graves in his novel Homer's Daughter and Andrew Dalby in Rediscovering Homer.

A young merchant traveling from Indiana, Michael Doctor Coffeen, built a store adjacent to the mill, and with Thomas created the village of Homer on January 26, 1837.

In the young adult novel Roughnecks by Thomas Cochran, the " Pineview Pelicans " are based on the Homer Pelicans as rivals of the " Oil Camp Roughnecks ".

She spent most of her young life in Homer, living with her father, Atz Kilcher.

The most significant of these new staff members were Homer Rodeheaver, an exceptional song leader and music director who worked with the Sundays for almost twenty years, and Virginia Healey Asher, who ( besides regularly singing duets with Rodeheaver ) directed the women's ministries, especially the evangelization of young working women.

After the war, Homer turned his attention primarily to scenes of childhood and young women, reflecting nostalgia for simpler times, both his own and the nation as a whole.

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.

Throughout the 1870s, Homer continued painting mostly rural or idyllic scenes of farm life, children playing, and young adults courting, including Country School ( 1871 ) and The Morning Bell ( 1872 ).

" When a young record shop employee asks what that is, Homer says " The US Festival, sponsored by that guy from Apple Computers!

Gyllenhaal's first lead role was in October Sky, Joe Johnston's 1999 adaptation of the Homer Hickam autobiography Rocket Boys, in which he portrayed a young man from West Virginia striving to win a science scholarship to avoid becoming a coal miner.

His latest book for young readers, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, set in the American Civil War, was named a Newbery Honor Book in 2010.

The young Delvaux took music lessons, studied Greek and Latin, and absorbed the fiction of Jules Verne and the poetry of Homer.

Homer complains about not being let in and reveals to Marge his past experience being excluded from clubs ; when he was young, a group of children formed the " No Homers Club " and did not allow him to join, though a boy named Homer Glumpet was not rejected.

The " Black Gold " exhibit at the Herbert S. Ford Memorial Museum in Homer, Louisiana, features a young roughneck working for the Sinclair Oil and Gas Company during the Claiborne Parish strike of the 1920s and 1930s.

Sommerstein believes that Homer wishes to imply in this reference that Troilus was killed in battle, but argues that Priam's later description of Achilles as andros paidophonoio (" boy-slaying man ") indicates that Homer was aware of the story of Troilus as a murdered child ; Sommerstein believes that Homer is playing here on the ambiguity of the root paido-meaning boy in both the sense of a young male and of a son.

As a young man he lived for a while on a farm in the nearby village of Homer.

Along with returning the $ 2, 000 to Homer, Herb buys several gifts for the Simpson family, including a new washer and dryer for Marge, a subscription to the Greater Books of Western Civilization for Lisa, and a lifetime membership to the NRA for Bart ( since he is too young to have the machine gun he mentioned earlier ).

They point out a mural she painted ( based on an incident at Woodstock where a very young Homer ran around naked in the mud ), which reveals Homer's middle name: " Jay ," which makes no difference to his name's pronunciation.

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 ).

Homer describes her as the formidable, venerable majestic queen of the shades, who carries into effect the curses of men upon the souls of the dead.

Homer describes her as the formidable, venerable majestic queen of the shades, who carries into effect the curses of men upon the souls of the dead, along with her husband Hades.

Socrates says that the men of flux, like Homer and Heraclitus, are really hard to talk to because you can't pin them down.

In Odyssey, however, Homer narrates a different story: Helen circled the Horse three times, and she imitated the voices of the Greek women left behind at home — she thus tortured the men inside ( including Odysseus and Menelaus ) with the memory of their loved ones, and brought them to the brink of destruction.

* Billy Bob Thornton as Homer Carlton, one of Stone's men

Writers similarly disagree also concerning the number of the Muses ; for some say that there are three, and others that there are nine, but the number nine has prevailed since it rests upon the authority of the most distinguished men, such as Homer and Hesiod and others like them.

From Homer onwards, Sisyphus was famed as the craftiest of men.

Homer calls her " Ino-Leocothea of the beautiful ankles, daughter of Cadmus, who was once a mortal speaking with the tongue of men, but now in the salt sea-waters has received honor at the hands of the gods ".

According to Homer, he was called Xanthos by gods and Scamander by men, which might indicate that the former name refers to the god and the latter one to the river itself.

Although he is mentioned only briefly in Homer's Iliad, in which Hera takes Stentor's character to encourage the Greeks to fight, his name has been living in the term " stentorian " voice, meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous: Homer said his " voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men ".

He aimed his critique at the polytheistic religious views of earlier Greek poets and of his own contemporaries: " Homer and Hesiod " one fragment states, " have attributed to the gods all sorts of things that are matters of reproach and censure among men: theft, adultery, and mutual deception.

* Scylla of Homer, a six-headed, twelve-legged serpentine that devoured six men from each ship that passed by

The famous ancient Greek poet and writer, Homer, first mentioned the island in his masterpieces, the Iliad and the Odyssey, stating that the first inhabitants of it were the son of King Dardanos of Troy called Zakynthos and his men and that they first came on the island around 1500 – 1600 BC.

This version, which made Homer known for the first time to many French men of letters ( including Antoine Houdar de la Motte ) gave rise to a famous literary controversy.

Much like Homer Simpson, Ryo-san's antics appeal to children who can laugh at an old buffoon and to men fearing that they are becoming old buffoons themselves and also because it often subtly mock the latest fads and trends.

Carl is frequently said to be among the most attractive men in Springfield, notably in " Principal Charming " where Homer concludes that Carl is too attractive for Selma.

In the works of Homer wanax appears, in the form ánax, mostly in descriptions of Zeus ( ánax andrōn te theōn te, " king of men and of the gods ") and of very few human monarchs, most notably Agamemnon.

In the episode " Three Gays of the Condo ", Homer Simpson moves in with a couple of gay men.

While there, Homer presents Hugh with a tacky pair of cuff links ( a bride and groom pig ) that all Simpsons men have worn on their wedding day, asking him to continue the tradition ; Hugh reluctantly agrees to wear them during the wedding.

Conscious that books can influence for good or ill, he admired authors he saw as defenders of sanity and good sense – men like Montaigne and Montesquieu – or as compassionate realists, like Homer in the Iliad, Euripides, Hardy, Ibsen and Chekhov.

In book nine of the Odyssey written by Homer, Odysseus and his men take Ismara by surprise and slay most of the Ciconian men they come across, taking Ciconian women as slaves.

Homer moves in with two gay men, Grady and Julio.