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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON HOMER'S BIRTHPLACE, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poet's Biography First Line: From colophon some deem thee sprung Last Line: No other than calliope. Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey | |||
FROM Colophon some deem thee sprung, From Smyrna some, and some from Chios; These noble Salamis have sung, While those proclaim thee born in Ios; And others cry up Thessaly The mother of the Lapithae. Thus each to Homer has assigned The birthplace just which suits his mind. But, if I read the volume right, By Phoebus to his followers given, I'd say they're all mistaken quite, And that his real country's heaven; While for his mother, she can be No other than Calliope. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE CHILDHOOD OF HOMER by MARY KINZIE HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS by EDWIN MUIR HOMER IN BASIC by KENNETH REXROTH THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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