Possible Clues:

• 'Mending the Nets' painter
• Great Greek poet who sometimes nods
• Weak referee and linesman
• Pigeon in nest with rook
• Great Greek author of the Odyssey
• Caustic-sounding author of beastly tales
• Poetic pigeon
• When Greek author meets OJ when he is animated
• 'Fog Warning' painter
• Bart's old man