place
Chios
also: Χίος
An Aegean island, called 'the brightest of islands' in Hymn 3's catalogue and, later in the same hymn, the home the Delian singers name for the blind bard who composed the hymn — an ancient testimony linking the poem to 'Homer.'
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §3.1 Chios
An Aegean island, called 'the brightest of islands' in Hymn 3's catalogue and, later in the same hymn, the home the Delian singers name for the blind bard who composed the hymn — an ancient testimony linking the poem to 'Homer.'
- The Odyssey §3.148 rugged Chios
The island the returning fleet debated passing above or below on the way to Euboea.