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PLATE XXV.
A terminal head of Homer ; it represents him in a very advanced
age,(i) and with amild,though sublime and dignified character. Seve-
ral heads of Homer are to be found in different collections, but the
most celebrated of them, with the exception of the present, which
is perhaps superior to any other, is that in the Farnese palace.(2)
Each of these heads is in like manner crowned with a narrow
diadem; and that they were both intended to represent the father of
Greek poetry, may very fairly be inferred from the resemblance they
bear to a terminus of Homer preserved at Naples,(3) on which is
inscribed the name of the poet, and three Greek inscriptions in
honour of him. We frequently find the portrait of Homer on Greek
coins. His head is represented on some of the medals of Amastris in
Paphlagonia,(4) and on those of the island of Ios,(5) in which latter
place, he is said to have been buried.(6) The figure of Homer is
also exhibited in a sitting posture holding a volume in his hand,
1 * sixro f/.h SaiSp) vo>)<ra»
Yrlpa.\;u>' to Se yrjpaj eijv yAuxu.
Christodori Ecphraseos, v. 321. apud Anthol. Graec. torn, hi-
p. 173, edit. Jacobs.
Aoiai fj.lv ttot) (3uwv exotXulvovro Trupeia),
Trjpa'i pixvr^m xarvourysroV aAA1 h kxelvutg
Avnysvrjc, Xzpheo-o-i o-vvio-Tio;, i'?avev AiSaSf.
Ibid. v. 339.
1 See Tischbein, Figures D' Homere d'apres Pantique, avec les explications de Cr. G.
Heyne; see also the Frontispiece to the edition of Homer's Odyssey edited by the
Grenvilles.
3 Bellorii, Veterum Illustrium Philosophorum, Poetarum, Rhetorum et Oratorum
Imagin: tab. 53. Fabri Comment, in Imagines Illustrium, pag. 46. Visconti, Icono-
graphie Grecque, torn. i. p. 52, 53.
4 Vet. Pop. et Reg. Num. qui in Museo Britannico adservantur, tab. ix. figg. 6. 7- 8.
s Pellerin, Recueil de Medailles, &c. torn. iii. pi. xciii. figg. 11. 12. 13.
6 Toutcov 81 'law exuo~Ty awep^si vrp'tiwv "lo;} h cu xsxrfievo-Qcit (pud the; tov 7roi)jT^v "OfJ.r)pov.
Strabon: Geog. lib. x. p. 741, edit. Casaub.
An inscription intended for the tomb of Homer in the island Ios, is extant in the
Anthologia Grasca, torn. ii. p. 25, edit. Jacobs.
A terminal head of Homer ; it represents him in a very advanced
age,(i) and with amild,though sublime and dignified character. Seve-
ral heads of Homer are to be found in different collections, but the
most celebrated of them, with the exception of the present, which
is perhaps superior to any other, is that in the Farnese palace.(2)
Each of these heads is in like manner crowned with a narrow
diadem; and that they were both intended to represent the father of
Greek poetry, may very fairly be inferred from the resemblance they
bear to a terminus of Homer preserved at Naples,(3) on which is
inscribed the name of the poet, and three Greek inscriptions in
honour of him. We frequently find the portrait of Homer on Greek
coins. His head is represented on some of the medals of Amastris in
Paphlagonia,(4) and on those of the island of Ios,(5) in which latter
place, he is said to have been buried.(6) The figure of Homer is
also exhibited in a sitting posture holding a volume in his hand,
1 * sixro f/.h SaiSp) vo>)<ra»
Yrlpa.\;u>' to Se yrjpaj eijv yAuxu.
Christodori Ecphraseos, v. 321. apud Anthol. Graec. torn, hi-
p. 173, edit. Jacobs.
Aoiai fj.lv ttot) (3uwv exotXulvovro Trupeia),
Trjpa'i pixvr^m xarvourysroV aAA1 h kxelvutg
Avnysvrjc, Xzpheo-o-i o-vvio-Tio;, i'?avev AiSaSf.
Ibid. v. 339.
1 See Tischbein, Figures D' Homere d'apres Pantique, avec les explications de Cr. G.
Heyne; see also the Frontispiece to the edition of Homer's Odyssey edited by the
Grenvilles.
3 Bellorii, Veterum Illustrium Philosophorum, Poetarum, Rhetorum et Oratorum
Imagin: tab. 53. Fabri Comment, in Imagines Illustrium, pag. 46. Visconti, Icono-
graphie Grecque, torn. i. p. 52, 53.
4 Vet. Pop. et Reg. Num. qui in Museo Britannico adservantur, tab. ix. figg. 6. 7- 8.
s Pellerin, Recueil de Medailles, &c. torn. iii. pi. xciii. figg. 11. 12. 13.
6 Toutcov 81 'law exuo~Ty awep^si vrp'tiwv "lo;} h cu xsxrfievo-Qcit (pud the; tov 7roi)jT^v "OfJ.r)pov.
Strabon: Geog. lib. x. p. 741, edit. Casaub.
An inscription intended for the tomb of Homer in the island Ios, is extant in the
Anthologia Grasca, torn. ii. p. 25, edit. Jacobs.