Homer Simpson might have some pretty problematic moments as a father, but "Lisa the Beauty Queen" showed the love he's always ...

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How did the Iliad, attributed to Homer and composed in the seventh century BC, quickly become famous among the Greeks?

When Homer goes to shake hands with Thayer, the man comments on his firm grip. “See, Marge, strangling the boy paid off,” Homer jokes, before quickly clarifying that he no longer does that.

Homer Simpson says “D’oh” a lot. Probably eleventy-billion times, considering that "The Simpsons" has run for 25 years this December. You know what else he says a lot? Yeah, you do.

Almost nothing is known about the author or date behind The Iliad and The Odyssey. "It's a mistake to think of Homer as a person," says the author of the new book Why Homer Matters.

Homer may indeed be painting’s Melville, not because of the passport he held, but because he could cram so much precision and perplexity into a single breath.

Homer softens this message in a black-on-black nocturne that follows, “Cape Trinity, Saguenay River, Moonlight” (1904) which has not been seen in New York since the 1996 retrospective.

In a recent episode of “The Simpsons,” Homer suggested he would abandon one of his best-known bits: throttling his son. It is the latest example of the show tailoring itself to evolving tastes.

Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life. By Natalie Haynes Natalie Haynes is the author, most recently, of the novel “Stone Blind ...