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Other scholars still support the idea that Homer was a real person.
" 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.
It is his noble and powerful style, sustained through every change of idea and subject, that finally separates Homer from all forms of ballad poetry and popular epic.
This idea is vague in Homer, but appears in later Greek depictions, and in Greek folklore.
He was designed to look like Homer Simpson with clown make-up, with the original idea being that Bart worships a television clown who looks like his own father.
The idea proved controversial to some the show's writing staff, who felt that having Homer go into space was too " large " an idea.
Kant himself refers to Wieland in the same sentence as Homer, citing him as an example of Kant's idea of artistic genius.
Homer tries to convince Larry to fake a kidnapping so that Burns will admit that he loves his son, and although Larry at first opposes the idea, he eventually agrees to do it.
Away from contemporary politics, Korais did much to revive the idea of Greece with the creation of the Hellenic Library, devoted to new editions of some of the classic texts, starting with Homer in 1805.
Homer gets the idea to do the ultimate good deed: steal Christmas.
Homer and Marge, thinking the children are chasing them again, run from the pair to find refuge in a giant inflatable castle ( which is not a good idea, as it is under repair ), which their lovemaking antics cause to fall into the Niagara River.
The idea of " woe to the conquered " can be found in Homer and the hawk parable in Hesiod's ' Works and Days ' and in Livy, in which " vae victis ", Latin for " woe to the conquered ", is first recorded.
From this idea he developed the " friends in competition with each other " plot, which led to Homer getting the plow from a car show.
However, where Homer uses the concept as a free-standing idea which gives Helen life after death, Euripides entangles it with the idea of kleos, one being the product of the other.
Poe may have gotten the idea to base a poem on Brahe's astronomical discovery from poet John Keats's use of the 1781 discovery of the planet Uranus in a poem called " On First Looking into Chapman's Homer " ( 1816 ).
" The idea for the episode was first conceived by Bill Oakley who thought that Homer should have an enemy.
Homer quickly gets to his feet, saying he does not go for those " back door shenanigans " and promptly leaves, a series of events which establishes the idea in Burns's mind that Homer is a good negotiator.
The next day, Homer gets an idea from Moe to hire Dexter Colt, a private detective, to find out facts about Lisa so he can appear to know things about her.
The episode, based on a story idea by Greg Daniels, has three major concepts: the family moves to a new town ; Homer gets a friendly, sympathetic boss ; and that boss, unbeknownst to Homer, is a supervillain.
" The idea for " Homer's Enemy " was first conceived by Oakley, who thought that Homer should have an enemy.

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`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.
He had no idea which was up and which was down.
Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.
Despite the clarity of his presentation, his idea was not of Einsteinian calibre.
To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.
Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.
Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.
The idea was not even suggested because political expediency prevailed over wisdom.
He had no idea where he was.
He realized that he had no idea where the telephone was.
Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.
While Mr. Blatz was putting up the pegboards and starting the workbench, Mr. Crombie told him of this idea about paneling the whole end of the cellar.
Instructions to relax, i.e., to be `` spontaneous '', and react immediately to whatever impulse they might have, was not sufficiently reassuring until some idea of the possibilities of normal reactions had been given.
By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.
The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.
For weeks he had been saying that Hudson's idea of sailing through to Java was absurd.
And it was Lucy Upton who first started the idea of a regular course in Music at Spelman College.
That, incidentally, might give you some idea of what Felix was like.
Well, it hadn't been what it seemed, he'd had no idea the girl was in there.
This was senseless -- he had no idea what to look for.
`` I'll get my references in order '', Needham said, and though he spoke with a smile, Casey somehow got the idea that he was not particularly amused.

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