In Greek mythology, Achilles (, Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

He is a character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and receives full treatment in Roman mythology as the legendary founder of what would become Ancient Rome, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid.

He is a significant figure in Homer's Iliad and is also mentioned in the Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.

He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War.

In Homer's Iliad he is described as of great stature, colossal frame and strongest of all the Achaeans.

In Homer's Iliad, when Alcmene was about to give birth to Heracles, Zeus announced to all the gods that on that day a child, descended from Zeus himself, would be born who would rule all those around him.

The Achaeans (, Akhaioí ) is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad ( used 598 times ) and Odyssey.

In Homer's Iliad, the horses of the Myrmidons graze on wild celery that grows in the marshes of Troy, and in Odyssey, there is mention of the meadows of violet and wild celery surrounding the cave of Calypso.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

The premier examples of its use are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.

The other Strife is presumably she who appears in Homer's Iliad Book IV ; equated with Enyo as sister of Ares and so presumably daughter of Zeus and Hera:

* Homer's Iliad at Gutenberg ( there are many different translations at Gutenberg )

His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid reflect actual historical events.

" Samuel Butler argues, based on literary observations, that a young Sicilian woman wrote the Odyssey ( but not the Iliad ), an idea further pursued by Robert Graves in his novel Homer's Daughter and Andrew Dalby in Rediscovering Homer.

From Homer's Odyssey, the Iliad, and some Attic vase paintings, we know that Hephaestus was born of the union of Zeus and Hera.

* 68 – Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and starting the civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

The importance of this can be seen throughout Greek mythology — in particular, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

A report by the Greek writer Dio Chrysostom ( c. 40-c. 120 CE ) about Homer's poetry being sung even in India seems to imply that the Iliad had been translated into Sanskrit.

Minos appears in Greek literature as the king of Knossos as early as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

After the Bible, the next best preserved ancient work is Homer's Iliad, with 650 copies originating about 1, 000 years after the original copy.

In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus crawls beneath two shoots of olive that grow from a single stock, and in the Iliad, ( XVII. 53ff ) is a metaphoric description of a lone olive tree in the mountains, by a spring ; the Greeks observed that the olive rarely thrives at a distance from the sea, which in Greece invariably means up mountain slopes.

Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle.

Examples of epic poems are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, the Nibelungenlied, Luís de Camões ' Os Lusíadas, the Cantar de Mio Cid, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata, Valmiki's Ramayana, Ferdowsi's Shahnama, Nizami ( or Nezami )' s Khamse ( Five Books ), and the Epic of King Gesar.

In the seventh century BC, Hesiod, both in his Theogony ( briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570 ) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest literary version of the Pandora story ; however, there is an older mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon mankind in Homer's Iliad:

Homer's Iliad describes Greek and Trojan soldiers offering rewards of wealth to enemies who have defeated them on the battlefield in exchange for mercy, but this is not always accepted.

It most likely referred to the Phoenicians ; Phoenix, the son of Amyntor and Cleobule in Homer's Iliad ; or the Phoenix, the sacred bird of Ancient Egypt.

In late antiquity, knowledge of Greek declined in Latin-speaking western Europe and, along with it, knowledge of Homer's poems.

Homer's name is located on Panel S-67 of the National September 11 Memorial ’ s South Pool, along with those of other passengers and crew of Flight 93.

In Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, the literary critic Erich Auerbach considers the Hebrew narrative of the Binding of Isaac, along with Homer's description of Odysseus's scar, as the two paradigmatic models for the representation of reality in literature.

In 1793, his translation of Homer's Iliad appeared, along with the Odyssey in a new form.

In The Simpsons fifth season's first episode, " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", Homer Simpson, along with finding an original copy of the U. S. Declaration of Independence, an Action Comics 1, and a Stradivarius violin, all of which he throws away, then comes across a full sheet of Inverted Jennys in the 5 cent box at a local swap meet.

), the show or film's theme song ( e. g. the final scene of " Homer's Triple Bypass ", from The Simpsons ; when Sam Carter hums the theme from Stargate SG-1 during the episode " Chimera "; the second Collector from Demon Knight ; when Mr. Incredible whistles theme music from The Incredibles ; when all the characters in the film Magnolia begin to sing the background music-" Wise Up " by Aimee Mann ; in Almost Famous, when one character begins to sing the background music-" Tiny Dancer " by Elton John-and all of the other characters around him immediately pick it up and sing along as well ; the moments when Sam Lowry of Brazil hums / listens to / sings the film's self-titled theme song ; when Daryl Van Horne whistles theme music from The Witches of Eastwick ; in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when Rubeus Hagrid is briefly heard playing the main theme on a recorder ); when Quinton ' Rampage ' Jackson ( as B. A.

" Homer's women were no longer " dolls who flaunt their millinery " but " sturdy, fearless, fit wives and mothers of men " who are fully capable of enduring the forces and vagaries of nature along side their men.

Meddahs were generally traveling artists whose route took them from one large city to another, such along the towns of the spice road ; the tradition supposedly goes back to Homer's time.

* A twelve-book essay about Homer's Catalogue of Ships, also based on Eratosthenes of Cyrene and Demetrius of Scepsis, dealing with Homeric geography and how it has changed along the centuries.

It appears earliest in the Catalog of Trojans of Homer's Iliad along with Miletus and Mycale.

Many lauded the use of Starr ; for instance, IGN ranked his performance in the episode, along with Paul McCartney's performance in " Lisa the Vegetarian " and George Harrison's performance in " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", as the tenth best guest appearance in The Simpsons < nowiki >'</ nowiki > history.

In a DVD review of the first season David B. Grelck gave the episode a rating of 4 / 5, placing it as, along with " Homer's Night Out ", his favorite of the season.

Oakley described the episode as a companion piece to " Homer's Enemy ", in that a character is juxtaposed alongside Homer and does not get along with him.

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.

IGN ranked McCartney's performance in this episode, along with Ringo Starr's performance in " Brush with Greatness ", and George Harrison's performance in " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", as the tenth best guest appearance in The Simpsons < nowiki >'</ nowiki > history.

In the episode, Homer, along with his son Bart, con people out of their money in order to pay for Homer's broken car.

Several people, including Homer's son Bart, tag along what soon becomes a problematic trip.

On September 14, 2004, " Sunday, Cruddy Sunday ", along with the season 1 episode " Homer's Night Out ", the season 11 episode " The Mansion Family " and the season 13 episode " Homer the Moe ", were released on a DVD set called The Simpsons-Gone Wild.

Surprisingly, Astrid Weller and even the whole town of Springfield is impressed with Homer's work, and enjoy the newly made " Grand Canals of Springfield " along with the swimming zoo animals.

The Navy drill instructor, along with the announcer to " Exploitation Theater ," was voiced by Michael Carrington, who had written the season four episode " Homer's Triple Bypass " and previously voiced Sideshow Raheem.

On September 14, 2004, the episode was released in the United States on a DVD collection titled The Simpsons Gone Wild, along with the season one episode " Homer's Night Out ", the season ten episode " Sunday, Cruddy Sunday ", and the season thirteen episode " Homer the Moe ".

Oakley described the episode as a companion piece to the season eight episode " Homer's Enemy ", in that a character ( Frank Grimes in this case ) is juxtaposed alongside Homer and does not get along with him.

The Moralia include On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great — an important adjunct to his Life of the great general — On the Worship of Isis and Osiris ( a crucial source of information on Egyptian religious rites ), and On the Malice of Herodotus ( which may, like the orations on Alexander's accomplishments, have been a rhetorical exercise ), in which Plutarch criticizes what he sees as systematic bias in the Father of History's work ; along with more philosophical treatises, such as On the Decline of the Oracles, On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance, On Peace of Mind and lighter fare, such as Odysseus and Gryllus, a humorous dialog between Homer's Odysseus and one of Circe's enchanted pigs.

On September 14, 2004, " Homer the Moe " was released, along with the episodes " Homer's Night Out ", " The Mansion Family " and " Sunday, Cruddy Sunday " on a DVD set entitled The Simpsons – Gone Wild.