In Homer it typically refers to life or lifespan.

For modern scholars " the date of Homer " refers not to an individual, but to the period when the epics were created.

Internal evidence from the poems gives evidence of familiarity with the topography and place-names of this area of Asia Minor, for example, Homer refers to meadow birds at the mouth of the Caystros, a storm in the Icarian sea, and mentions that women in Maeonia and Caria stain ivory with scarlet.

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 ".

In this dialogue, Socrates refers to Epicharmus of Kos as " the prince of Comedy " and Homer as " the prince of Tragedy ", and both as " great masters of either kind of poetry ".

In the eighth-season episode " The Homer They Fall ", the announcer at Homer's boxing match against Drederick Tatum refers to Fat Tony as Anthony D ' Amico, which he is called later as well, for example, by the FBI.

Homer refers to Thoosa, the mother of Polyphemus, as a daughter of Phorcys, but does not indicate whether Ceto is her mother.

In " Flaming Moe's " ( 1991 ), he is called Morris by his lover, while in " The Springfield Connection " ( 1995 ), Homer refers to Moe by the Arabic " Moammar ", and in " Eeny Teeny Maya Moe " ( 2009 ), he suggests that he only changed his name to Moe when he purchased Moe's Tavern.

Homer refers to Thoosa, the mother of Polyphemus, as a daughter of Phorcys.

For modern scholarship, ' the date of Homer ' refers to the date of the poems as much as to the lifetime of an individual.

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.

Homer calls it " hollow Lacedaemon ", though he refers to a pre-Dorian period.

At one point Homer erroneously refers to Einstein as the inventor of the light bulb.

Heraclitus must have lived after Xenophanes and Pythagoras, as he condemns them along with Homer as proving that much learning cannot teach a man to think ; since Parmenides refers to him in the past tense, this would place him in the 5th century BCE.

Kant himself refers to Wieland in the same sentence as Homer, citing him as an example of Kant's idea of artistic genius.

The Iliad of Homer refers to lots being placed into Agamemnon's helmet to determine who would fight Hector.

Homer refers to a number of towns in the Mani region, and some artifacts from the Mycenaean period have been found.

Sexual Inadequacy " ( an episode of The Simpsons ), Abraham Simpson asks Homer whether pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is what's wrong with Marge ; a cartoon episode of Rocket Power, in which a dimwitted character named Twister successfully spells the word on his spelling test ; High School Musical 2: What's What Edition refers to this as the longest word.

" In another episode, entitled " Lisa the Tree Hugger ," Homer refers to the Luftwaffe as " the Washington Generals of the History Channel.

" Little is known about the role they played in Greek social life, but they existed from the Greek Dark Ages until the 2nd century BC ; Homer refers to them several times, in passages that appear to describe the social environment of his times.

Along with the expected examples from Homer and other figures of Greek culture, Longinus refers to a passage from Genesis, which is quite unusual for the 1st century:

1100 BC – 800 BC ) refers to the period of Greek history from the presumed Dorian invasion and end of the Mycenaean civilization in the 11th century BC to the rise of the first Greek city-states in the 9th century BC and the epics of Homer and earliest writings in alphabetic Greek in the 8th century BC.

In " Burns ' Heir ", both Mr. Burns and Waylon Smithers refer to him as " Leonard ", the same way they refer to Homer as " Simpson ", though in The Frying Game, Homer refers to him as " Lenford ".

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.

She becomes pregnant by her father, and Homer performs an abortion on her.

Homer equated her with the war-goddess Enyo, whose Roman counterpart is Bellona.

In Homer, her saffron-coloured robe is embroidered or woven with flowers ; rosy-fingered and with golden arms, she is pictured on Attic vases as a beautiful woman, crowned with a tiara or diadem and with the large white-feathered wings of a bird.

She is most often associated with her Homeric epithet " rosy-fingered " ( rhododactylos ), but Homer also calls her Eos Erigeneia:

Homer expressed her relationship with Zeus delicately in the Iliad, in which she declares to Zeus, " I am Cronus ' eldest daughter, and am honourable not on this ground only, but also because I am your wife, and you are king of the gods.

Enyo, a war goddess responsible with the destruction of cities and attendant of Ares, is also mentioned as a daughter of Zeus and Hera, though Homer equates her with Eris.

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.

Both fragments make direct allusions to scenes in Homer ’ s Iliad, while Sappho also expands them with her own narrative illustrations.

In a late Greek myth, recorded in Eustathius ' commentary on Homer and John Tzetzes, Heracles encountered Scylla during a journey to Sicily and slew her.

With her husband Homer, she has three children: Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.

In " The Way We Was " ( season two, 1991 ), it is revealed via flashback that Marge attended Springfield High School, and in her final year met Homer Simpson.

These include working as a nuclear technician alongside Homer at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in " Marge Gets a Job " ( season four, 1992 ); selling houses in " Realty Bites " ( season nine, 1997 ); owning her own pretzel business in " The Twisted World of Marge Simpson " ( season eight, 1997 ), and working at an erotic bakery in " Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes " ( season 20, 2008 ).

While she usually takes her family's problems with good humor, in " Homer Alone " ( season three, 1992 ), her workload and resultant stress caused her to have a mental breakdown.

The next day, Homer is dirty and disheveled, and begs Marge to take him back, saying the one thing he can offer her that nobody else can is " complete and utter dependence.

Marge maintains a good relationship with her mother Jacqueline and her sisters Patty and Selma, though they disapprove of Homer and are vocal about it.

This much is in Homer, who does not discuss the aspect of this episode in which other writers explain that the only way to appease Artemis was to sacrifice Iphigenia to her.

She eloped with Theseus after he achieved his goal, but according to Homer " he had no joy of her, for ere that, Artemis slew her in seagirt Dia because of the witness of Dionysus " ( Odyssey XI, 321-5 ).

In the primitive highlands of Arcadia, where old practices lingered, the Erymanthian Boar was a giant fear-inspiring creature of the wilds that lived on Mount Erymanthos, a mountain that was apparently once sacred to the Mistress of the Animals, for in classical times it remained the haunt of Artemis ( Homer, Odyssey, VI. 105 ).

This battle is shown by Homer to be almost playful as Hera is smiling while she boxes the ears of Artemis, which causes Artemis to fly away in tears.