{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1805.tlg005.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1805.tlg005.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1805.tlg005.local001","title":"Vita quinta","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Vitae Homeri","authorityName":"VITAE HOMERI","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1805-vitae-homeri/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1805-vitae-homeri/","editors":["Thomas W. Allen"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Open Greek and Latin","sourceTitle":"Homeri Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1912","volume":"5","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":["Center for Hellenic Studies"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Proofreading","names":[]},{"role":"CTS conversion","names":[]},{"role":"CTS conversion","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/homeriopera05home/page/246/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Vitae Homeri. Vita quinta. ed. Thomas W. Allen. Homeri Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1912. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1805.tlg005.local001","excerpt":"Ὅμηρος ὁ ποιητὴς πατρὸς μὲν ἦν Μέλητος, μητρὸς δὲ Κριθηίδος, το δὲ γένος κατὰ μὲν Πίνδαρον (fr. 264) Σμυρναῖος, κατὰ δὲ Σιμωνίδην (fr. 85) Χῖος, κατὰ δ' Ἀντίμαχον (F. H. G. ii. 58 fr. 18) καὶ Νίκανδρον (fr. 14 Schn.) Κολοφώνιος, κατὰ δὲ Βαγχυλίδην (fr. 48 Bl.) καὶ Ἀριστοτέλην τὸν φιλόσοφον (fr. 66 R.) Ἰήτης, κατὰ δʼ Ἔφορον (fr. 164) καὶ τοὺς ἱστορικοὺς Κυμαῖος, κατὰ δʼ Ἀρίσταρχον καὶ Διονύσιον τὸν Θρᾷκα Ἀθηναῖος. τινὲς δὲ καὶ Σαλαμίνιον αὐτὸν εἶναί φασιν, ἄλλοι δʼ Ἀργεῖον, ἄλλοι δʼ Αἰγύπτιον ἀπὸ Θηβῶν. τοῖς δὲ χρόνοις κατὰ μέν τινας πρὸ τῆς τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν ἐγένετο καθόδου, ὥστε ἕνεκεν τούτου γιγνώσκεσθαι ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ τοὺς ἐπʼ Ἴλιον στρατεύσαντας· τὰ γὰρ ἀπὸ τῶν Τρωικῶν ἐπὶ τὴν κάθοδον τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν πʼ ἔτη. τοῦτο δʼ ἀπίθανον ὑπάρχει· καὶ γὰρ αὐτὸς ὁ Ὅμηρος ὑστεροῦντα πολλοῖς χρόνοις ἑαυτὸν ἀποδείκνυσι λέγων ἡμεῖς δὲ κλέος οἶον ἀκούομεν οὐδέ τι ἴδμεν. τινὲς δὲ λέγουσιν αὐτὸν τῆς Ἰωνικῆς…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1805.tlg005.local001/#tlg1805-tlg005-local001-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1805.tlg005.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg1805.tlg005.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1805/tlg005/local001.json.gz"}}