Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ntiquity as the burial-place of Homer, who is said to have died here on Idsvoyage from Smyrna to Athens. Long afterwards,when the fame of the poet had filled the world, theinhabitants of los are reported to have erected thefollowing inscription upon his tomb- — Ec0a5e tV epy Ki(pa\)]v Kara yaTa KaKvmnAvSpuv rjpiiwv KOfffi-qTopa, detov Ofx-qpcv. (Pseudo-Herod. Vit. Homer. 34, 36; comp. Scylax,p. 22; Strab. x. p. 484; Pans. x. 24. § 2: Plin.,Steph. //. cc.) It was also stated that Clymone,the mother of Homer, was a native of los, and thatshe was buried i
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ntiquity as the burial-place of Homer, who is said to have died here on Idsvoyage from Smyrna to Athens. Long afterwards,when the fame of the poet had filled the world, theinhabitants of los are reported to have erected thefollowing inscription upon his tomb- — Ec0a5e tV epy Ki(pa\)]v Kara yaTa KaKvmnAvSpuv rjpiiwv KOfffi-qTopa, detov Ofx-qpcv. (Pseudo-Herod. Vit. Homer. 34, 36; comp. Scylax,p. 22; Strab. x. p. 484; Pans. x. 24. § 2: Plin.,Steph. //. cc.) It was also stated that Clymone,the mother of Homer, was a native of los, and thatshe was buried in the island (Pans., Steph, 13., );and, according to Gellius (iii. 11), Aristotle relatedthat Homer himself was bom in los. In 1771 aDutch nobleman, Graf Pasch van Krienen, assertedthat he had discovered the tomb of Homer in thenorthern part of the island; and in 1773 he pub-lished an account of his discovery, with some in-scriptions relating to Homer which he said he hadfound upon the tomb. Of this discoveiy a detailed JOVIA. C3. COIN OF lOS. account is given by Ross, wlio is disposed to believethe account of Pasch van Krienen; but the originalinscriptions have never been produced, and mostmodern scholars regard them as forgeries. (Ross,Reisen atif den Griech. Inseln, vol. i. pp. 54, 154,seq.; Welcker, in Zeitschrift Jitr die Alterthiaiv-swissenschaft, 1844. p. 290, seq.) JOTABE (IcDTagT;), an island in the ErythraeanSea, not less than 1000 stadia from the city ofAelana, inhabited by Jews who, formerly inde-pendent, accepted the yoke of the Empire duringthe reign of Justinian ( P. i. 19). It isnow called Tiran, or Djeziret Tyran of Burkhardt{Trav. p. 531), the island at the entrance of theChdJof Akahah. (Comp. Jouiii. of Gcog. Soc. pp. 54, 55.) The modern name recalls the Gens Tyra of Pliny (vi. 33), placed by him inthe interior of the Arabian gulf. (Rittcr, Erd-kunde, vol. xiii. pp. 223—225, vol. xiv. pp. 19,262.) [E. B. J.] JOTAPATA (IbyrdiraTa :
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