Summary

Portrait of Homer Homer,  Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica… (1920)

“ For some say, at Dracanum; and some, on windy Icarus; and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn [1] ; and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele bare you to Zeus the thunder-lover. And others yet, lord, say you were born in Thebes; but all these lie. The Father of men and gods gave you birth remote from men and secretly from white-armed Hera. There is a certain Nysa, a mountain most high and richly grown with woods, far off in Phoenice, near the streams of Aegyptus
*⁠*⁠*⁠*
"and men will lay up for her [2] many offerings in her shrines.
”
Source: Wikisource

Get perspective with Kwize: daily news enlightened by great literature