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THE
LIFE OF HOMER,
ATTRIBUTED TO HERODOTUS.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus,[1] in the pursuit of truth, writes this history of the birth and life of Homer.
I. When, many years ago, the city of Cumæ in Æolia was built, there flocked to it many persons of the various nations of Greece, and, among them, were some from Magnesia.[2] One of these was Menapolus, the son of Ithagenes, the son of Crito. This man, far from possessing riches, had scarcely the means of subsistence. When settled in Cumæ, he married the daughter of Omyretis. By this marriage, he had one child, a girl, whom he called Critheïs. The husband and wife both
- ↑ Some editions of the History bore, as we find from Aristotle, (Rhetoric ii. 9, § 1,) the following variation from our usual superscription or preface: "This is the exposition of the historical researches of Herodotus of Thurium," &c. It is to be presumed that the edition which Aristotle mentioned was one of those revised after his retiring to that town from Halicarnassus, (now called Budrun,) in the fortieth year of his age, B. C. 444. Thurium was built near the ruins of Sybaris, in Lucania, by some Athenians. Some say, that the banished Thucydides, (afterwards recalled,) and Lysias, son of Cephalus, the celebrated orator, accompanied Herodotus, (Strabo vi.; Plin. xii. 4; Mela ii. 4,) but this is doubtful.
- ↑ The present Mansa.
