 | George Grote - Greece - 1846 - 662 pages
...(seven is rather below the truth, and Smyrna and Chios are the most prominent among them) is well-known, and most of them had legends to tell respecting his...itinerant bard acquainted with poverty and sorrow 1 . The 1 The Life of Homer, which passes falsely under the name of Herodotus, contains a collection... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1854 - 748 pages
...was unaccustomed to anything like historical investigation. Seven cities laid claim to his birth.J and most of them had legends to tell respecting his...sorrow. It cannot be disputed that he was an Asiatic (ireek; but this is the only fact in his life which can be regarded as certain. Several of the best... | |
 | John Timbs - History - 1858 - 272 pages
...birth of Homer, Smyrna and Chios being the most prominent. Most of these cities had legends to tell of his romantic parentage, his alleged blindness, and...itinerant bard acquainted with poverty and sorrow ; whilst of the eight different epochs assigned to Homer's existence, the oldest differs from the most... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1860 - 718 pages
...was unaccustomed to anything like historical investigation. Seven cities laid claim to his birth,t and most of them had legends to tell respecting his...life of an itinerant bard acquainted with poverty and SOITOW. It cannot be disputed that he was an Asiatic Greek ; but this is the only fact in his life... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1861 - 760 pages
...was unaccustomed to anything like historical investigation. Seven cities laid claim to his birth, J and most of them had legends to tell respecting his...the best writers of antiquity supposed him to have Iteen a native of the island of Chios, where there existed a iioetical gens or fraternity of Homerids,... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1870 - 750 pages
...and which was unaccustomed to anything like historical investigation. Seven cities laid claim to his birth, $ and most of them had legends to tell respecting...Several of the best writers of antiquity supposed him to hava been a native of the island of Chios, where there existed a poetical gens or fraternity of Homerids,... | |
 | George Grote - Greece - 1872 - 572 pages
...they be admitted or not, the general currency of the opinion adverted to is equally evident. Sate of of them had legends to tell respecting his romantic...his alleged blindness, and his life of an itinerant known, and bard acquainted with poverty and sorrow.1 The discndlcss di- ^ ' . crepancies of statement... | |
 | George Lovett Bennett - 1881 - 208 pages
...cities laid claim to Homer's birth, and most of them had legends to tell respecting his romantic 3 parentage, his alleged blindness, and his life of...itinerant* bard acquainted with poverty and sorrow. 1. in the Hiad are related. 2. oriundus. 3. fabulosus. 4. vagabundus. 161. Socrates on Ruling. Socrates... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1854 - 756 pages
...was unaccustomed to anything like historical investigation. Seven cities laid claim to his birth, J and most of them had legends to tell respecting his...Several of the best writers of antiquity supposed him to hav» been a native of the island of Chios, where there existed a poetical gens or fraternity of Homerids,... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1855 - 728 pages
...was unaccustomed to anything like historical investigation. Seven cities laid claim to his birth,f and most of them had legends to tell respecting his...It cannot be disputed that he /was an Asiatic Greek ; bat this is the only fact in his life which can be regarded as certain. Several of the best writers... | |
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Seven cities laid claim to his birth, $ and most of them had legends to tell respecting his romantic parentage, his alleged blindness, and his life of an itinerant bard acquainted with poverty and sorrow. It cannot be disputed that he was an Asiatic Greek... 
