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The Homereion
Known · AttestedExistence: AttestedConjectured · Our reconstructionLocation: Never found
Never found.
A temple Ptolemy IV built to Homer, with a seated statue of the poet surrounded by the cities that claimed him. The marble relief of the Apotheosis of Homer by Archelaus of Priene (British Museum) shows the same idea of Homer enthroned.
The evidence: Aelian only; location unknown.
Within Alexandria.
This place through time
No dated state of this place is recorded yet.
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Sources (2)
- Aelian, Varia Historia 13.22
- P. M. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972)