Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.

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

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

Attempts to find classical or Late Latin influence or analogue in Beowulf are almost exclusively linked with Homer's Odyssey or Virgil's Aeneid.

In Greek mythology, Circe (; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē " falcon ") is a minor goddess of magic ( or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress ), described in Homer's Odyssey as " The loveliest of all immortals ".

In Homer's Odyssey, Circe is described as living in a mansion that stands in the middle of a clearing in a dense wood.

In addition, the 2003 Radio Tales drama " Homer's Odyssey: Voyage to the Underworld " retells the portion of Homer's epic featuring Circe, followed by the voyage to Hades to consult with Tiresias.

Odysseus faced both Charybdis and Scylla in Homer's Odyssey while rowing through a narrow channel.

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.

The name Crete ( Κρήτη ) first appears in Homer's Odyssey.

In Homer's Odyssey she is the blond-haired goddess who separates the chaff from the grain.

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

In the 1920s, James Joyce managed " a more upbeat version " of Hamlet — stripped of obsession and revenge — in Ulysses, though its main parallels are with Homer's Odyssey.

" 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.

Homer's Odyssey also uses the hexameter verse throughout his poem.

Even earlier, a kind of primitive haggis is referred to in Homer's Odyssey, in book 20, ( towards the end of the eighth century BC ) when Odysseus is compared to " a man before a great blazing fire turning swiftly this way and that a stomach full of fat and blood, very eager to have it roasted quickly.

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

Chiron had told Jason that without the aid of Orpheus, the Argonauts would never be able to pass the Sirens — the same Sirens encountered by Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

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

Andronicus also translated Homer's Greek epic the Odyssey into an old type of Latin verse called Saturnian.

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

* Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in Patria, first performed in 1640, is an opera by Monteverdi based on the second half of Homer's Odyssey.

* Every episode of James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses ( 1922 ) has an assigned theme, technique and correspondences between its characters and those of Homer's Odyssey.

* Zachary Mason's The Lost Books of the Odyssey ( 2007 ) is a series of short stories that rework Homer's original plot in a contemporary style reminiscent of Italo Calvino.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

* " Homer's Enemy ", an episode of The Simpsons

In most episodes, he works as the Nuclear Safety Inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position he has held since " Homer's Odyssey ", the third episode of the series.

Homer's middle initial " J ", which stands for " Jay ", is a " tribute " to animated characters such as Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket J. Squirrel from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show who got their middle initial from Jay Ward.

Brown and Logan also wrote that Grampa had a considerable influence in the formation of Homer's character, and that flashbacks in The Simpsons show what an " angry ", " critical " father he was to Homer.

In the eighth-season episode " The Homer They Fall ", the announcer at Homer's boxing match against Drederick Tatum refers to Fat Tony as Anthony D ' Amico, which he is called later as well, for example, by the FBI.

Smithers first appeared in the episode " Homer's Odyssey ", although he could be heard in the series premiere " Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ".

In his first visual appearance in " Homer's Odyssey ", Smithers was mistakenly animated with the wrong color and was made an African American by Gyorgi Peluci, the color stylist.

Smithers made his first appearance in " Homer's Odyssey ", which was the third episode of the first season, although he can be heard over a speaker in The Simpsons series premiere " Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ".

In his first visual appearance in " Homer's Odyssey ", Smithers was mistakenly animated with the wrong color and was made an African American by Gyorgi Peluci, the color stylist.

As Homer's boxing coach in " The Homer They Fall " ( 1996 ), he narrates his career as a boxer, from " Kid Gorgeous " through " Kid Presentable ", " Kid Gruesome " and eventually " Kid Moe ".

In " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", Barney formed a barbershop quartet with Homer, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, and Seymour Skinner called the Be Sharps.

Castellaneta has voiced Barney every time he has appeared in the series, with the exception of the episode " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", in which some of Barney's singing is provided by a member of The Dapper Dans, who recorded lines for all four members of the Be Sharps.

In " Homer's Triple Bypass ", Hibbert announces to Homer that his heart operation will cost $ 30, 000.

In " Bye Bye Nerdie ", after Homer's baby-proofing business eliminates child injuries in Springfield, Hibbert complains that he is behind in his boat payments because of this.

", got its title from the film and features Homer's half-brother Herb, who goes from CEO of a major car manufacturer to a hobo.

In Homer's Odyssey, a digression concerning the lineage of Theoclymenus, " a prophet, sprung from Melampus ' line of seers ", sketches the epic narrative concerning Melampus with such brevity that its details must have been familiar to Homer's audience.

One of the first was Hesiod ; he calls the oracular Dodona, identified by reference to " the oak ", the " seat of Pelasgians ", clarifying Homer's Pelasgic Zeus.

* At the end of The Simpsons episode " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", all the members of The Be Sharps sing their first hit on Moe's rooftop while George Harrison, driving by, says " It's been done.

In " Homer's Triple Bypass ", he donates a kidney and a lung out of the goodness of his heart to whoever needs them first.

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.