The division in any poem is called a stanza. The second stanza begins where the words start at the space underneath the first stanza. Canto is another word that is used for division in a long poem,...
He partly was named after the famous blind Greek poet Homer, who wrote The Odyssey. It tickled creator Matt Groenig's fancy to name his dunce everyman after a famously wise epic poet.
The Iliad was an epic poem that recounted the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. An alternate name for "Troy" was "Ilium," and in Greek the word "Iliad" roughly translates to "The Story of Troy."