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The Canonicity of Homer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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The view of Homer which I have attempted to expound in articles recently contributed to this and other journals may be stated as follows: an individual, father of the children, first natural then spiritual, who bore his name and worshipped him, lived in Chios, of which island he was so much the glory that ‘ Chian ’ in the mouth of Simonides, himself a professional and an islander, means ‘ Homer.’ He was not blind, like his disciple the Chian Cynaethus, but seeing: he selected, arranged, adorned and expanded two episodes in the stock of saga (whether continuous or already disposed in separate poems) which the colonists brought with them from Europe.
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page 221 note 1 It is later for instance than many recorded dates of settlements
page 222 note 1 Henning′s Homers Odyssee, 1903, pp. 221, 259
page 222 note 2 E.g. the statement in schol. Pind. Ntm. II. init. 
page 222 note 3 I include all variants—readings of actual MSS., quotations, readings explicitly recorded by scholia and readings favoured by ancient scholars, without distinction.
page 223 note 1 B 565 
V 27 Certamen 296 for 
is possibly from Hesiod. The corruption of IIηρεÍη B 766 into IIερÍη also may be due Theophrasto Hesiod, who first locates the Muses there (O.D.1). n 857 áςρττα for áγςρττα is uncertain: áςρτσΝΝη occurs Hes. O.D. 471, but áδρÓς first in Herodotus, áδρÓγης in Theophrastous.
page 224 note 1 Reading Í for ςÍ I withdraw my previous suggestion.
page 224 note 2 The variant is perhaps connected with the ed. of the younger Euripides, C.S. 1901, 347.
page 225 note 1 From an old variant in Homer?
page 225 note 2 So we must read: σσατ MSS. Rhianus extended the figurative use to abstracts: ‘ they did on death,’ i.e. the death-portending feathers fell upon them. This favours 
in the same line.
page 227 note 1 See CM., Sept. 1913.
page 230 note 1 There are other testimonies for Egyptian participation in the siege of Troy: e.g., Demetrius 
(F.H.O. IV. 383), the Aethiopians going to Troy under Tithonus when they heard of Memnon′s death cast down w their crowns at Abydos.
page 231 note 1 I quote two for their coincidence with that gramrock of offence 
which did not awake ancient suspicion:
Beside these the Alexandrians detected gram, matical supplements, intended to ease a construction or elucidate a meaning. I collected some C.R. 1902,1 sqq. The origin of these passages in most cases escapes us; it is natural they should be personal invention.
page 232 note 1 With Bunbury and Vollgraff I am clear that Dolichium (Doulichium is only a metrical length-ening) is the later Leucas. SeeJ.H.S. 1910, 304. It must be so till someone finds another island in these parts, capable of growing enough corn to trade in it and of raising a sufficient population to provide Meges with forty ships. The name 
belongs to a village on the south slope of Pindus, and hangs as an echo round one of the Echinades. There is no reason why it should have meant ‘ long,’ unless Port Isaac in Cornwall is to be connected with the patriarch. Strabo I.e. appears to have thought that the old name of Leucas was 
. He knew that Leucas and Cephallenia had changed their names, but no ancient imagined that Ithaca and Zacynthus were unoriginal.
page 233 note 1 The 
(Strabo 452, E.G.F. p. 77 Jr. 5) also contained Ulyssean genealogies, but its subject is too early for it to have included Ulysses′ last days.