The doors dwelt upon in Homer would appear to have been cased in silver or brass.

* 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.

Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus ' own time, which would place him at around 850 BC ; while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th century BC.

* 1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the " whites-only " car of a train ; he would lose the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.

Homer implies, that from then on, Odysseus would live a long and happy life together with Penelope and Telemachus, wisely ruling his kingdom and enjoying wide respect and much success.

The ode plays upon the fact that those who are listening to Bacchylides have also read the epics of Homer, and understand the whole story behind this scene that would speak poorly of Achilles if people did not know the role he played in the Trojan war.

During the shorts, the animators experimented with the way Homer would move his mouth when talking.

He survived his car blowing up, catching on fire due to the powerful magnifying effect of his glasses, a hallucinating Montgomery Burns drilling into his brain, capital punishment ( in a local jail ) after Homer eats his last meal, left inside a fluoroscope for possibly an entire weekend, being buried alive, being left forgotten and alive in a purgatory and being engulfed by an " anti-escape bubble " that was attempting to catch Marge ( a parody of a similar device from the ' 60s show The Prisoner ), and he also was run over by Homer in The Parent Rap, after the whole family promised they would not commit any crimes for a whole year.

Homer would have been executed gangland-style if not for Maggie coming to the rescue with her rifle.

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.

" The name " Santa's Little Helper " was chosen because, according to writer Al Jean in the same TV Guide article, " we needed a name that would inspire Homer to bet on him, an omen, a Christmas name since he was betting on Christmas Eve.

Their plan, or construction, of a pile of mountains atop which they would confront the gods is described differently according to the author ( including Homer, Vergil, and Ovid ), and occasionally changed by translators.

A scholiast on Homer relates that Hecuba's parents were either Dymas and the nymph Eunoe or Cisseus and Telecleia ; the latter option would make her a full sister of Theano, which is also noted by the scholiast on Euripides cited above.

Herodotus said that Homer lived 400 years before his own day, which would place Homer about 850 BC ; but other ancient sources gave dates much closer to the Trojan War.

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.

She had a gift for memorization, and easily learned the poetry of Homer and Pindar, which her father would recite to her.

Major ancestry groups reported by Homer City residents would include: 18 % German, 17 % Italian, 11 % Irish, 9 % Polish, 7 % Slovak, 7 % English, 5 % Dutch, 3 % Scots-Irish, 3 % Scotch, 2 % Hungarian, 1 % Swedish, 1 % Ukrainian, 1 % French ( except Basque ), 1 % Pennsylvania German, 1 % Croatian, 1 % Welsh, 1 % Russian, 1 % Norwegian, 1 % Slovene, and 1 % Slavic.

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.

He was so weak that the Under-Secretary, Robert Wood, author of an essay on The Original Genius of Homer, would have postponed the business, but Granville said that it " could not prolong his life to neglect his duty ", and quoted the speech of Sarpedon from Iliad xii.

As a result, Homer and Marge want to get rid of the dog, but Bart and Lisa convince them that he can be trained at an obedience school.

Homer chides Bart for not faking plausible grades, but lets him go to camp anyway because he does not want Bart “ hanging around all summer ".

Meyer did not want to show that God was literally appearing to Homer.

During production the staff did not want one side to be slobs ( e. g. Homer, Barney, Moe ) and the other snobs ( e. g. Mr. Burns, Smithers, Skinner ), but this ended happening in the final product.

At dinner, Homer proudly tells of his successes at work, but discovers that his family hates Cypress Creek and want to go back to Springfield.

After resolving a marital dilemma, Homer and Marge want to spend a night on the town so they need a babysitter to look after their children.

They claim they want to create a perfect world in which the mistakes of the past will be eliminated-including Homer.

Homer manipulates the body in several escapades, which convinces Maude that Ned died of an accident and that he does not want an autopsy.

Burns makes Homer his personal hitman and threatens to reveal his identity to the rest of the city if he does not comply ( Homer goes along with it because he does not want to wind up doing community service ).

Homer does not want to kill his wife ( or himself, an alternative he is given but quickly rejects ), and he tries to plead to God that he wants to get out of the job after leading Him to believe that he killed Marge.

Mona does not want Homer to be imprisoned and leave his children like she did, so she electrically shocks him and pushes him out of the bus onto an abandoned bed.

They did not want Homer to come off as a " hog ", so they decided that the viewer should barely see him eating after he reaches his 300 pounds goal.

After Homer bowls his perfect game, he pulls out a " Before I Die I want To -" list and checks off the item " Bowl a Perfect Game.

They especially disapproved of a scene in which Homer smokes marijuana for the first time, since they did not want to instruct children how to smoke.

The only note that Hawking gave regarding the script was that he did not want to be portrayed as drunk in the episode's last scene, in which he is discussing astronomy with Homer in Moe's tavern.

Homer, Lenny and Carl all want a doughnut, but only one is left.

When they arrive, Lisa admits that she only played a trick on Homer and Bart ( though they already know the leprosy is fake because Homer ate one of the sores and found it tasty ); however, they want to stay there on account of it being a " free vacation ", despite the painful electric needle treatments.

The jockeys reveal themselves to be murderous elf-like creatures who want Homer to have Duncan lose the upcoming race.

While in his cell at the police station, Molloy casually mentions that he assumes Homer and the cops probably want to know where he hid all of his loot.

Homer and Bart also have their own adventure when they meet a tribe of Native Americans who want a dam removed so they can reclaim their land.

Bob asks Homer to list all the people who may want him dead, and decides to follow Homer around to investigate who the mystery assailant could be.