However, he bade him bring the stranger to him.
Glaucus told Homer what had taken place, and bade him follow him, assuring him that good fortune would be the result.

Conversation soon showed that the stranger was a man of much cleverness and general knowledge, and the Chian persuaded him to remain, and to undertake the charge of his children.( 11) Besides the satisfaction of driving the impostor Thestorides from the island, Homer enjoyed considerable success as a teacher.

In the town of Chios he established a school where he taught the precepts of poetry.

"To this day," says Chandler,( 12) "the most curious remain is that which has been named, without reason, the School of Homer.

It is on the coast, at some distance from the city, northward, and appears to have been an open temple of Cybele, formed on the top of a rock.