Other accounts of his death are offered by Philostratus and the scholiast on Lycophron.

A scholiast on Argonautica lists the following male lovers of Heracles: " Hylas, Philoctetes, Diomus, Perithoas, and Phrix, after whom a city in Libya was named ".

A scholiast on Pindar's odes provides a list of seven completely different names: Anicetus, Chersibius, Mecistophonus, Menebrontes, Patrocles, Polydorus, Toxocleitus.

Most of the ancients, including the first two just mentioned, refer to his work by his name: " Pytheas says ..." Two late writers give titles: the astronomical author Geminus of Rhodes mentions ( ta peri tou Okeanou ), literally " things about the Ocean ", sometimes translated as " Description of the Ocean ", " On the Ocean " or " Ocean ;" Marcianus, the scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, mentions a ( periodos gēs ), a " trip around the earth " or ( periplous ), " sail around.

According to a scholiast, commenting on the passage in Argonautica, the island was first of all called Macris after the nurse of Dionysus who fled there from Euboea.

According to a scholiast on Pindar, he once acted as peace-maker between Hieron and another Sicilian tyrant, Theron of Acragas, thus ending a war between them.

" A scholiast, commenting on the passage, wrote: " Simonides seems to have been the first to introduce money-grabbing into his songs and to write a song for pay " and, as proof of it, quoted a passage from one of Pindar's odes (" For then the Muse was not yet fond of profit nor mercenary "), which he interpreted as covert criticism of Simonides.

A scholiast on the passage comments that this account was first put forward by Ibycus, and that it was also taken up by Simonides of Ceos.

The Korybantes, also known as the Curetes, whom the scholiast on Callimachus calls her brothers, also watched over the child ; they kept Cronus from hearing him cry by beating their swords on their shields, drowning out the sound.

According to a scholiast on Homer's Iliad, Polyeidos had two sons, Euchenor and Cleitus, by Eurydameia, daughter of Phyleus.

In an explanatory scholium on this passage, an anonymous scholiast, echoed by Eustathius, explains that Aedon attempted to kill the son of her sister-in-law and rival, Niobe, but accidentally killed her own son instead: thus, the gods changed her into a nightingale to weep for eternity.

Some versions from non-extant works are summarized by a scholiast on Euripides ' Hecuba: according to those, she was a daughter of Dymas or Sangarius by the Naiad Euagora, or by Glaucippe the daughter of Xanthus ( Scamander?

A scholiast on Homer relates that Hecuba's parents were either Dymas and the nymph Eunoe or Cisseus and Telecleia ; the latter option would make her a full sister of Theano, which is also noted by the scholiast on Euripides cited above.

A scholiast commenting on Horace's Epodes recorded two differing accounts of the dispute with Bupalus, characterized however as " a painter in Clazomenae ": Hipponax sought to marry Bupalus's daughter but was rejected because of his physical ugliness, and Bupalus portrayed him as ugly in order to provoke laughter.

The chief source is a scholiast on Lucian ( Dialogue Meretricii 2. 1 ), explaining the term " Thesmophoria ".

As snakes were known to congregate in such pits, the scholiast on Lucian explains, those who didn't go to retrieve the remains shouted to scare away any that might be lurking down there.

Hesychius says he was a son of Apollo, while Hyginus consistently calls him a son of Paphos ( presumably the eponym of Paphos ), and a scholiast on Pindar makes him a son of Eurymedon and the nymph Paphia.

Astydameia is briefly mentioned by a scholiast on Euripides as the daughter of Strophius and Cydragora and sister of Pylades.

A scholiast on the Iliad distinguishes between two possible eponyms: Phocus the son of Aeacus and Psamathe, and Phocus the son of Poseidon and Pronoe.

This agrees with the statement of the scholiast on Aristophanes, that at Melite there was a statue of Heracles (), the work of Ageladas the Argive, which was set up during the great pestilence ( Olympiad lxxxvii.

A scholiast to Homer adds that he finished her off by equipping his spear with a lump of lead that melted when exposed to the Chimera's fiery breath and consequently killed her, an image drawn from metalworking.

The same scholiast related a popular story that the poet kept two boxes, one empty and the other full-the empty one being where he kept favours, the full one being where he kept his money.

There is confusion also about his place of birth, " Megara ", which Plato for example understood to be Megara Hyblaea in Sicily, while a scholiast on Plato cites Didymus for the rival theory that the poet was born in a Megara in Attica, and ventures the opinion that Theognis might have later migrated to the Sicilian Megara ( a similar theory had assigned an Attic birthplace to the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus ).

The most probable solution of the difficulty is that of Friedrich Thiersch, who thinks that there were two artists of this name ; one an Argive, the instructor of Phidias, born about 540 BC, the other a native of Sicyon, who flourished at the date assigned by Pliny and was confounded by the scholiast on Aristophanes with his more illustrious namesake of Argos.

According to the scholiast of Lycophron, it was the Egyptian Thebes that was the site of his kingdom similarly with Aeschylus.

Although most accounts are uniform as to the number, names, and main myths concerning the Pleiades, the mythological information recorded by a scholiast on Theocritus ' Idylls with reference to Callimachus has nothing in common with the traditional version.

A scholiast on Euripides relates that Termera was founded by Termerus and took its name after him.

In his view the History is primarily a literary product – an exercise in historical fiction ( or ' fictional history ') produced by a ' rogue scholiast ' catering to ( and making fun of ) the antiquarian tendencies of the Theodosian age, in which Suetonius and Marius Maximus were fashionable reading and Ammianus Marcellinus was producing sober history in the manner of Tacitus.

According to the scholiast on Theocritus, one form was employed at night, and another, to rouse the bride and bridegroom on the following morning.

According to a scholiast commenting on verses in Argonautica, the island she fled to was subsequently named after her.

According to the Suda, he wrote forty plays, and his chief actor was Simeron, according to the scholiast of Aristophanes.

According to the scholiast of Aristophanes, it was brought out before Aristophanes ' Ecclesiazusae.

A fragment of the Macedonian historian Marsyas of Pella ( 4th century BC ), through a scholiast of Iliad xiv 226 < ref > Frg 13, Greek text: confirms the genealogy as found in the Catalogue of Women: " Makedon son of Zeus and Thyia, conquered the land then belonging to Thrace and he called it Macedonia after his name.

10, v. 49-50 ( commented by Pomponius Porphyrion, Helenius Acron and the scholiast of Cruquius );

According to Suda, both his " constitution " () and his " precepts " () were composed in elegiac couplets, but Pausanias also mentions " anapests ", a few lines of which, quoted by Dio Chrysostom and attributed to Tyrtaeus by a scholiast, could have belonged to the so-called " war songs " (), of which nothing else survives.

He seems to have been read by Lucan and imitated by Sulpicius Severus, but he is mentioned only by the scholiast on Lucan, and once by Priscian.

According to the same scholiast, Hipponax retaliated in verse so savagely that Bupalus hanged himself.

The scholiast on Aristophanes gives a somewhat different account from Charax of Pergamum, and makes them build the treasury for King Augeas.

Homer pictures Apollo on the side of the Trojans, fighting against the Achaeans, during the Trojan War.

Lastly, his Mouseion ( a word invoking the Muses ) seems to have contained the narrative of the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, of which the version that has survived is the work of a grammarian in the time of Hadrian, based on Alcidamas.

2754: Winter, J. G., ' A New Fragment on the Life of Homer ' TAPA 56 ( 1925 ) 120 – 129 ).

Anaximenes was a pupil of Zoilus and, like his teacher, wrote a work on Homer.

Former emphasis on presumed race, in which John A. Scott could write an article on Achaean blondness, compared to the dark locks of " Mediterranean " Poseidon, on the basis of hints in Homer, has been laid aside.

The original text is found on the preface Blake printed for inclusion with Milton, a Poem, following the lines beginning " The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato & Cicero, which all Men ought to contemn: ..."

Pope: " Thus on a roe the well-breath'd beagle flies, And rends his hide fresh-bleeding with the dart " The Iliad of Homer ( 1715 – 20 ) Book XV: 697 – 8

Despite its explicitly Christian nature, Clement's work draws on Stoic philosophy and pagan literature ; Homer alone is cited over sixty times in the work.

He did some studio work for RCA that year but had relocated to Knoxville again where he worked with Homer and Jethro on WNOX's new Saturday night radio show The Tennessee Barn Dance and the popular Midday Merry Go Round.

Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.

He is presumed missing by the military, but Homer and Candy both believe he is dead and move on with their lives.

She becomes pregnant by her father, and Homer performs an abortion on her.

In his biography in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Suetonius attests to Domitian's ability to quote the important poets and writers such as Homer or Virgil on appropriate occasions, and describes him as a learned and educated adolescent, with elegant conversation.

But the form of the OHG and Gothic words suggests it is also a borrowing, perhaps indeed directly or indirectly from Greek " ἐλέφας " ( elephas ), which in Homer only meant " ivory ", but from Herodotus on the word also referred to the animal.

In Homer, her saffron-coloured robe is embroidered or woven with flowers ; rosy-fingered and with golden arms, she is pictured on Attic vases as a beautiful woman, crowned with a tiara or diadem and with the large white-feathered wings of a bird.

Both Homer and Hesiod described a flat disc cosmography on the shield of Achilles.

* The Greeks ( 1980 ), a cycle of ten plays adapted by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander from the works of Homer, Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, on the Oresteia legend. The Greeks would also have very great orgys, blowjobs.

Even after Homer had located Hector in Troy for all time, the Thebans held on to their hero, and the Delphic oracle provided the necessary sanction.

Homer expressed her relationship with Zeus delicately in the Iliad, in which she declares to Zeus, " I am Cronus ' eldest daughter, and am honourable not on this ground only, but also because I am your wife, and you are king of the gods.

* 700 BC: Epic poem Iliad by Homer, earliest account on the continent.

Just as Homer drew extensively on a tradition of oral poetry, sung by wandering minstrels, so Herodotus appears to have drawn on an Ionian tradition of story-telling, collecting and interpreting the oral histories he chanced upon in his travels.

Homer and His Guide, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau ( 1825 – 1905 ), portraying Homer on Mount Ida, beset by dogs and guided by the goatherder Glaucus ( as told in Pseudo-Herodotus )