HERODOTUS ON THE ORIGIN, TIME AND LIFE OF HOMER
...us has recorded the following information on the origins, time and life of Homer, aiming to achieve the greatest accuracy. When Cyme, the old Aeolian city,
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...than Homer say that he lived at the beginning of Archippus’ rule, whereas Homer lived at the end of it. Archippus was the son of Acastus and ruled the Athe
...dus instructed them to pick out and recite the finest of their own verses, Homer began to recite the following passage, leaving out many previous lines:
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{{#chapternum:1}} Some may consider it superfluous to investigate Homer’s parentage and from where he came, when not even he thought it worthwhil
...ver, and for this reason he was named Melesigenes. His name was changed to Homer after he went blind; this is what the Cymaeans and the Ionians called the b
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Life of Homer
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Hesychius Milesius = Suda s.v. Homer (Ο 251=iii p. 524.27-526.13 Adler)}}
...ns and, marrying Eumetis, the daughter of Euepes, son of Mnesigenes, sired Homer.
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Life of Homer
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Anonymous, Life of Homer 3 (Vita Scorialensis ΙΙ / Vita Homeri V)}}
{{#chapternum:1}} The poet Homer’s father was Meles, his mother, Critheis. According to Pindar he was a Sm
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Homer’s date, life, character, catalogue of poems.
{{#chapternum:1}} The epic poets have been many: the greatest of them are Homer, Hesiod, Peisander, Panyassis, and Antimachus.
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...statue of Homer on a base, and read the oracle which they say was made for Homer:
...for themselves) say that his mother was Themisto, a local woman, and that Homer’s birth was predicted by Euclus in the following verses:
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...Commentary'' (Cambridge, 2010). Together with Emily Greenwood she edited ''Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon''
...Greek poets, such as Thebes (Pindar), Paros (Archilochos), and Alexandria (Homer). Since antiquity poetic landscapes have played a central role in shaping t
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[[File:Amastris Homer Coin 2.jpg|center|600px]]
...01 and 200 AD. It is thought to resemble the ''Apollonius of Tyana'' Type Homer, and has been used as a criterion for its identification.
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...Elisha. And if anyone wishes to follow the grammarian Crates and say that Homer lived at about the time of the return of the Heraclids, eighty years after
...years. He dates the first Olympiad to thirty-four years after him, so that Homer would be about ninety years before the establishment of the Olympic games.
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...mn to Apollo after writing it. And this Cynaethus was the first to perform Homer’s verses in Syracuse during the sixty-ninth Olympiad, as Hippostratus say
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...ed the local games took place, the Games of the Dead. […] Among the poets, Homer was far the best, in truth, but Hesiod won anyway. […]
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...mn to Apollo after writing it. And this Cynaethus was the first to perform Homer’s verses in Syracuse during the sixty-ninth Olympiad, as Hippostratus say
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[[File:Hellenistic Blind Type Homer.jpg|right|350px]]
...Greek portrait (second-century B.C.). The most famous sculptural type of Homer, reproduced by Rembrandt, Ingres and Korzhev, among others.
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...an epigram that he (Creophylus) composed it, and that it was said to be by Homer because of the aforementioned hospitality.
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Lost Statuette of Homer Illustrated in ''Orsini Imagines et Elogia'' 1570}}
[[File:Orsini Homer.jpg|right]]
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Archelaus Relief'' or ''Apotheosis of Homer''}}
...space Chronos (Time) and Oikumene (the Inhabited World) crown an enthroned Homer who holds a sceptre and a scroll. Kneeling on either side of the poet are
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...herself uttered the wise song. The companion of Apollo, that divine being Homer, my father, stood with the gods. Though he appeared as an old man, yet his
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