While The Simpsons has inevitably changed a lot throughout the show’s 36 years on the air, I was still struck by just how much Homer’s entire personality has transformed since the show’s pilot episode ...

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of heroism, gods and the enduring human spirit. While The Iliad plunges us into ...

Billy is a Senior Features Author for Collider. Having written over 300 articles in just over a year, Billy regularly covers the biggest TV shows and films releasing while also analysing some of the ...

The Simpsons‘ earliest seasons really shed a light on Homer‘s past life with his absentee fugitive mother and emotionally distant father, but there were pieces of his life that even he didn’t know ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

For decades, The Simpsons has long had a bald patriarch of the Springfield clan. Homer has been happy with only three hairs on his head as he’s swapped jobs, survived seasons of hassles, and marched ...

He is back. In 2026, Odysseus the wanderer returns—though this time arriving in cinemas, rather than a ship—when Christopher Nolan’s version of Homer’s “The Odyssey” opens in July. The film promises ...

Homer’s Odyssey is one of the most influential epics in history, telling the legendary tale of Odysseus’ long journey home. Filled with gods, monsters, and trials of human will, it shaped the ...