Homer mentions an Achaean attack upon the delta, and Menelaus speaks of the same in Book 4 of the Odyssey to Telemachus when he recounts his own return home from the Trojan War.

In later times these were usually called έπωδαί, charms, but in earlier days they were certainly called paeans ( παιάν ), for Homer speaks of the god, Paieon, who takes his name from them.

Homer, the author of the oldest known work of European literature, speaks only of one Gorgon, whose head is represented in the Iliad as fixed in the centre of the aegis of Athena:

Homer speaks as if there were one town in the island called Lemnos.

Homer speaks to Bart and finally promises that he will never mistreat him again.

Brutus ' friend Acilius heard of this, and quoted Homer where Andromache speaks to Hector:

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.

They then move back to the US dressed as 19th century immigrants from Europe where Homer speaks of plans of integration into America.

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

Moe speaks to Homer through the bars of his jail cell window and promises to bail him out, but changes his mind when Renee talks about wanting to vacation in Hawaii.

Former emphasis on presumed race, in which John A. Scott could write an article on Achaean blondness, compared to the dark locks of " Mediterranean " Poseidon, on the basis of hints in Homer, has been laid aside.

After numerous attempts on Homer ’ s life, he captures the evil Krusty doll, locks it in a suitcase, and drops it in a " Bottomless Pit ".

Homer locks himself and Bart in a room, but Snake's hair takes control of him.

The next morning, Marge fears that Homer is dead and attempts to escape the house with the kids, but Ultrahouse locks her inside and tries to subdue and seduce her.

In the episode, the Simpson family wins a free spa weekend, and Homer is nearly killed when a mysterious figure locks him in a sauna.

At the spa, Homer is nearly killed when a mysterious person locks him into an incredibly hot steam room with a spanner.

In “ Treehouse of Horror IX ,” he injects himself with anesthetic after punching Homer in the face in order to knock him out before performing a hair transplant on him, using a pizza cutter.

Although dark hair colours were predominant in the works of Homer, there is only one case of a dark hero, and that is when the blond Odysseus is transformed by Athena and his beard becomes blue-black.

Homer and Marge enjoy their summer alone, with Homer losing weight and growing hair.

The stress of seeing Kent Brockman's TV reports on the revolt causes Homer to immediately lose the hair he grew and regain the lost weight.

Homer wakes up after his hair is caught fire but quickly succumbs to the thick smoke and faints.

On Homer, the redesign was minimal, making him a bit heavier, removing one hair and placing an extra line under the eye.

Homer uses the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant medical insurance plan to buy Dimoxinil, a miracle hair growth formula.

Homer grows hair, and is given a promotion at work which allows him to hire a secretary named Karl.

Homer successfully applies the drug, and after using it, he wakes up the next day to the thrill of having a full head of hair, and runs throughout the town blissfully.

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

Smithers begins to feel jealous of Homer for his high standing with Mr. Burns and searches Homer's file, finding the damaging information he seeks in the case of insurance fraud that gave Homer hair in the first place.

Homer is nervous about giving the speech without Karl, but reasons that as long as he has hair, everything will be fine.

By the next day, Homer has lost all his hair and, bald again, arrives at the meeting.

His fears are alleviated when Karl appears with a pre-written speech for him, but Homer is still convinced he is incapable of accomplishing anything without his hair.

Karl impatiently tells Homer what he had been trying to teach him all along — that all of Homer's achievements had been the result of his own will and effort, not of his hair.

Reassured, Homer presents a brilliant speech on the Japanese art of self-management, but the audience is unable to take him seriously because he has no hair.

Burns angrily summons Homer, threatening to fire him, but reveals photographs of himself with strawberry curly hair in his younger years when girls flocked to him until he went bald, and as a fellow sufferer of male pattern baldness, sympathizes with Homer's situation and merely demotes him back to his old position rather than terminating him.

After growing hair, the production staff tried to give Homer a new hair design in every scene.

The scene in which Homer is running through town after he got his hair is a reference to the film It's a Wonderful Life.

This is the ninth Treehouse of Horror episode, and, like the other " Treehouse of Horror " episodes, contains three self-contained segments: In " Hell Toupée ", Homer gets a hair transplant and is possessed by the spirit of an executed criminal ; in " Terror of Tiny Toon ", Bart and Lisa are trapped in a special, extremely violent episode of The Itchy & Scratchy Show ; and in " Starship Poopers ", Marge reveals that Maggie is the product of a one-night stand with the alien Kang.

A 1973 diagnosis of colon cancer, however, led Atkins to redefine his role at RCA, to allow others to handle administration while he went back to his first love, the guitar, often recording with Reed or even Homer & Jethro's Jethro Burns ( Atkins's brother-in-law ) after Homer died in 1971.

Finally, even after accepting the various alterations admitted by Homer, some lines remain impossible to scan, e. g. Iliad I. 108 “ not a good word spoken nor brought to pass ”:

According to Diodorus Siculus, Homer had even visited Egypt.

Ephorus made Homer a younger cousin of Hesiod, Herodotus ( Histories, 2. 53 ) evidently considered them near-contemporaries, and the 4th century BC sophist Alcidamas in his work Mouseion even brought them together for an imagined poetic agon, which survives today as the Contest of Homer and Hesiod.

Aristotle ( Metaphysics 983b – 987a ) believed that the question of first causes may even have started with Hesiod ( Theogony 116 – 53 ) and Homer ( Iliad 14. 201, 246 ).

Some ancients thought Homer and Hesiod roughly contemporaneous, even rivals in contests, but modern scholarship raises doubts on these issues.

Grampa has a poor relationship with his son, who placed Grampa in a nursing home as soon as he could, despite Grampa selling his house in order to provide Homer with a mortgage, although its strongly and recurringly suggested that, while caring, Grampa was very controlling and even emotionally abusive towards Homer when he was growing up and he still had not forgiven him for that.

In early episodes, she is shown as very sexually aggressive and promiscuous: in " Flaming Moe's ", she is shown with her arms around two sailors in the parody of the famous Cheers theme, and tries to pick up both Joey Kramer ( Aerosmith's drummer ) and Homer Simpson, even after learning he is married and Bart's father.

His catchphrase is " Vote Quimby ", which he always finds an opportunity to say, even in situations where it would be disadvantageous to identify himself, like inadvertently being caught by Homer in a motel room with his mistress.

He also survives a recall election, with no candidate in the race against him ( candidates include Rainier Wolfcastle ( a Schwarzenegger reference ), Kent Brockman, and even Homer Simpson ) garnering the five percent necessary to force a recall.

He does on occasion even help various other characters, such as helping Homer find his wife in " Marge on the Lam ", helping Lisa Simpson find Mr. Burns ' assailant in " Who Shot Mr. Burns?

On the few occasions where Wiggum loses his commission, he breaks down shockingly fast ( as seen in " Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge "), even degrading to the level of a common mugger ( as seen in " Homer vs.

* In The Simpsons episode, " Take My Wife, Sleaze ", a parody of Rebel Without a Cause became an inspiration for Homer Simpson to form his motorcycle gang, even though he watched it with his vintage 1955 Harley-Davidson motorcycle he won at a ' 50s nostalgia cafe earlier in this episode.

Although his work now only survives in fragments, he was revered by the ancient Greeks as one of their most brilliant authors, able to be mentioned in the same breath as Homer and Hesiod, yet he was also censured by them as the archetypal poet of blame — his invectives were even said to have driven his former fiancee and her father to suicide.

Plato, in The Republic, numbered Simonides with Bias and Pittacus among the wise and blessed, even putting into the mouth of Socrates the words " it is not easy to disbelieve Simonides, for he is a wise man and divinely inspired ," but in his dialogue Protagoras, Plato numbered Simonides with Homer and Hesiod as precursors of the sophist.

Within Homeric studies specifically, Lord's The Singer of Tales, which focused on problems and questions that arise in conjunction with applying oral-formulaic theory to problematic texts such as the Iliad, Odyssey, and even Beowulf, influenced nearly all of the articles written on Homer and oral-formulaic composition thereafter.

Homer even uses a simile to reiterate the father-son relationship between Telemachus and Eumaeus.

Homer described him in detail in the Iliad, Book II, even though he plays only a minor role in the story.

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

Don Brewer is even quoted that ' being considered at least competent by Homer is one of my greatest compliments ever.

Theognis was conservative and unadventurous in his use of language, frequently imitating the epic phrasing of Homer, even using his Ionian dialect rather than the Dorian spoken in Megara, and possibly borrowing inspiration and entire lines from other elegiac poets, such as Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus and Solon.