place
Smyrna
also: Σμύρνη
A city on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor through which Artemis is imagined driving her chariot to Claros in Hymn 9; a city later claimed, among several others, as Homer's birthplace.
Reading notes
- The Epigrams of Homer §4 Smyrna
A city on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor, one of several places later tradition claimed as the poet's birthplace; here it stands opposed to Cyme, the city that refuses him.
- The Homeric Hymns §9.1 Smyrna
A city on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor through which Artemis is imagined driving her chariot to Claros in Hymn 9; a city later claimed, among several others, as Homer's birthplace.