The Homer High School varsity baseball team set the national record for most consecutive wins at 75.

Homer wins big, but when Martin points out that his winnings can only be redeemed for prizes and not real money, the angry casino patrons riot.

At one point in the episode, Homer wins a Pulitzer Prize for his achievements in journalism.

Homer wins ( despite the fact that a human cannot win under the rules ) and Bart is proud of his dad.

Mr. Burns finally wins the war by having a talk with Homer ( and even drugging him ) so he can dish some dirt on Lisa ; the following day's Springfield Shopper boasts the headline, “ LISA ’ S A TOTAL WACKO, IMPLIES FATHER ”, and goes further by humiliating Milhouse's crush upon her.

At the awards ceremony, Homer's model wins first prize and Grimes is horrified to see that instead of Homer being humiliated for winning a children's competition, his co-workers applaud and cheer him.

When she wins first prize in a local art competition for a portrait of Homer on the couch in his underwear, Mr. Burns commissions her to paint a portrait of him.

Bart wins the grand prize in a carnival game, and then Homer beats him, going into an extended victory dance.

Homer wins 98 % of Artie's company's outstanding stock.

The scene in which Homer bowls the strike that wins him the perfect game takes many elements from the Robert Redford film The Natural ( 1984 ), including the camera flashes, music and slow-motion.

Justin was indirectly referenced in an early episode of " The Simpsons ", when a show titled " Old Starsky and Hutches " wins an Ace Award at a ceremony hosted by Homer as a Krusty the Klown impersonator.

In " Angry Dad: The Movie ", Bart and Homer create a short film based on the Angry Dad cartoon seen in " I Am Furious ( Yellow )", but after the film wins a myriad of prizes, the two start fighting over who created the series.

Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood of I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide gave the episode a positive review as well, calling it " Very, very clever and funny ," and wrote " it's executed stylishly and Homer wins in the end ; entirely by default of course, but maybe that's his reward for not falling off the skywriting plane until the last minute!

Near the beginning of the episode, Homer takes part in, and wins, KBBL's drinking contest.

In the episode, Homer wins a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and starts his own biker gang, naming it " Hell's Satans ".

After a fight with Meathook, Homer wins back Marge.

Duncan wins several races and, as a result, Homer is threatened with death by a group of jockeys.

At the Springfield Derby, Duncan wins the race, and the furious jockeys chase after Homer and Bart.

The team wins the title and Homer, still unconscious, is paraded as a hero.

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.

Meanwhile, Homer and Marge attend their " Class of 1974 " high school reunion, where they have a great time and Homer wins a variety of humorous awards.

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.

Like Achilles, he is represented ( although not by Homer ) as living after his death in the island of Leuke at the mouth of the Danube.

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

A relationship between objects of art described by Homer and the Mycenaean treasure was generally allowed, and a correct opinion prevailed that, while certainly posterior, the civilization of the Iliad was reminiscent of the Mycenaean.

The Aegis (), as stated in the Iliad, is the shield or buckler or breastplate, of Athena or Zeus, which, according to Homer was fashioned by Hephaestus.

* In The Simpsons episode " Homer at the Bat ", Homer Simpson is hit in the head by a pitch while playing for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team, rendering him unconscious, but forcing in the winning run.

Catullus's poetry was influenced by the innovative poetry of the Hellenistic Age, and especially by Callimachus and the Alexandrian school, which had propagated a new style of poetry that deliberately turned away from the classical epic poetry in the tradition of Homer.

The ' 38 club saw Dizzy Dean lead the team's pitching staff and provided a historic moment when they won a crucial late-season game at Wrigley Field over the Pittsburgh Pirates with a walk-off home run by Gabby Hartnett, which became known in baseball lore as " The Homer in the Gloamin '".

He is presumed missing by the military, but Homer and Candy both believe he is dead and move on with their lives.

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

Daedalus is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne.

Homer also altered the forms of words to allow them to fit the hexameter, typically by using a dialectal form: ptolis is an epic form used instead of the Attic polis wherever it is necessary for the meter.

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 ”:

* Recitation of Homer, by Stanley Lombardo.

* Roisman, Joseph, and translated by J. C Yardley, Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011 ) ISBN 1-4051-2776-7

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 ).

** The Whole Works of Homer Prince of Poets by George Chapman ( 1616 ) a retelling of the Iliad and Odyssey in iambic rhyming couplets: the Iliad in iambic heptameter, and the Odyssey in iambic pentameter.

* The Greeks ( 1980 ), a cycle of ten plays adapted by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander from the works of Homer, Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, on the Oresteia legend. The Greeks would also have very great orgys, blowjobs.

He also pushed for the study of Greek, housing Barlaam of Calabria, and encouraging his tentative translations of works by Homer, Euripides, and Aristotle.

Homer concludes by referring to the Trojan prince as the " tamer of horses.

* 700 BC: Epic poem Iliad by Homer, earliest account on the continent.

* Roisman, Joseph, and translated by J. C Yardley, Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011 ) ISBN 1-4051-2776-7

The narrative structure allows for this diversity through simple stylistic devices such as the principle of ring composition, familiar since the time of Homer, in which the introduction and conclusion of a story or sub-plot is signalled by the repetition of some formulaic statement, facilitating the reader's comprehension of stories within stories in a kind of ' Chinese-box technique '— a structure that has no resemblance to the nine books artificially created by Alexandrian scholars.