In the Odyssey, Homer says nothing of their origin or names, but gives the number of the Sirens as two.

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

When Homer has a heart attack in front of him in response to this news, he says, unmoved, that the cost is now $ 40, 000-hinting the heart attack made him now require a quadruple bypass.

Homer says they were killed by Apollo before they had any beards, consistent with their being bound to columns in the Underworld by snakes, with the nymph of the Styx in the form of an owl over them.

Homer gives a literary account of love never expressed: while she is presented as a potential love interest to Odysseus – she says to her friend that she would like her husband to be like him, and her father tells Odysseus he would let him marry her – nothing would result between the pair.

Apollodorus of Erythrae, however, says that one who was his own countrywoman predicted the Trojan War and prophesied to the Greeks both that Troy would be destroyed and that Homer would write falsehoods.

Homer ( Iliad 4 ) says that Zeus struck him blind ; Dryas, the oak, is sacred to Zeus.

" Also, at the end of their song, Homer says the ending comments "... I hope we pass the audition ", followed by everyone laughing and Barney saying " I don't get it.

When the record store owner advises him to look at the ' Oldies ' section, Homer takes out a Styx record and says " Oldies ?, but you got all the top bands in here.

" After Lisa criticizes it, Homer says " this is the only newspaper in the country that is not afraid to tell the truth: that everything is just fine ".

Homer calls Mr. Burns and says that he can have Larry back if he admits that he loves him.

Fundamentally, all that is known of this Erichthonius comes from Homer, who says ( Samuel Butler's translation of Iliad 20. 215-234 ):

The next day, Bart prepares to leave and says tearful goodbyes to everyone except Homer.

He says he will obtain a picture of him for his study and that " I'll worship sweet Mr Shakespeare and to honour him will lay his Venus and Adonis under my pillow, as we read of one-I do not well remember his name, but I'm sure he was a king-slept with Homer under his bed's head ".

* The US Festival was mentioned in The Simpsons episode " Homerpalooza ", where Homer says, " There can only be one truly great festival of a lifetime, and it's the US Festival!

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

Socrates says this can't be right because Homer ( whose authority they both accept on this point ) says that modesty is not good for all people, but it is agreed that sophrosyne is ( 160e ).

According to Homer, Calypso kept Odysseus hostage at Ogygia for seven years, while Pseudo-Apollodorus says five years and Hyginus says one.

Homer ( Pope's translation ) says:

The Historia Regum Britanniae says that at the time of her death Samuel was judge in Judea, Aeneas Silvius was ruling Alba Longa, and Homer was gaining fame in Greece.

In explaining the presence of the Titan Anytos at Lycosura, he says that " From Homer the name of the Titans was taken by Onomakritos, who in the orgies he composed for Dionysos made the Titans the authors of the god's sufferings ".

When a player misses, the Homer figure screams or says one of his trademark lines such as " D ' oh!

Homer appears to know nothing of all these tragic occurrences, and we learn from him only that, after the death of Thyestes, Aegisthus ruled as king at Mycenae and took no part in the Trojan expedition.

" Homer " is a Greek name, attested in Aeolic-speaking areas, and although nothing definite is known about him, traditions arose purporting to give details of his birthplace and background.

Since nothing is known about the life of this Homer, the common joke — also recycled with regard to Shakespeare — has it that the poems " were not written by Homer, but by another man of the same name.

" So far nothing has been said that differs from the Zeus of Homer.

Except for a few basic generalities, such as that the Lycians probably fought in the Trojan War, nothing mentioned by the works produced under the name of Homer, or the other poets, or anything said by Herodotus about Lycians prior to his own time, is generally granted any historical validity.

The ghosts of Homer and Marge watch Bart taunt Milhouse, and Homer attempts to talk Marge in to having ghost sex with him, only for Marge to tell him that " ghost sex is nothing.

He is credited with an excellent work on Homer, collections of Greek and foreign literature, and archaeological treatises, but nothing remains except the barest notes.

" Homer is new and fresh this morning, and nothing, perhaps, is so old and tired as today's newspaper.

Bart refuses and tells her that he had nothing against her, Lisa and Maggie ; his beef has always been with Homer and now that Bart is emancipated, he's free from his father's abuse.

Homer unwittingly takes him on a tour of the power plant and thinks nothing of the many photographs Adil takes, which Adil sends home by a secret fax machine in Bart's tree house.

Unlike Homer, Hesiod speaks of himself in his poetry ; it remains true that nothing is known about him from any external source.

Though no name of a philosophical work by him is known, according to the Suda, the 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia, he wrote a treatise on the poetry of Hesiod and Homer, but nothing of them has survived.

The dialog in the film helps Lisa realize that Homer knows absolutely nothing about her.

Moe shouts back that Homer does not deserve Marge at all since he knows nothing about her: her favorite dish, for example.

While she at first denies that she knows anything, Marge eventually tells the kids the truth: Willie was set on fire in a furnace explosion ( caused by Homer, who had increased the temperature of the school's thermostat, ignoring Willie's orders not to ) and burned to death while the parents of the students looked on and did nothing.

On several occasions, they do not seem to care even when Homer faced a life-threatening situation ; for instance, upon discovering via a telephone call that Homer had suffered a heart attack, the two continued cutting coupons as though nothing were wrong, expressing more shock at a five cent discount on wax paper.

Homer, initially appalled at what everyone has become, eventually embraces the concept of being a mutant animal who does nothing but eat, sleep, mate and roll around in its own filth upon realizing how well it fits in with his personal lifestyle.

Meanwhile Homer himself is troubled by the fact that his so-called heroism was nothing but luck.

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.