The shape is oval, and in the centre is the image of the goddess, the head and an arm wanting.

She is represented, as usual, sitting.

The chair has a lion carved on each side, and on the back.

The area is bounded by a low rim, or seat, and about five yards over.

The whole is hewn out of the mountain, is rude, indistinct, and probably of the most remote antiquity." So successful was this school, that Homer realised a considerable fortune.
He married, and had two daughters, one of whom died single, the other married a Chian.
The following passage betrays the same tendency to connect the personages of the poems with the history of the poet, which has already been mentioned:-- "In his poetical compositions Homer displays great gratitude towards Mentor of Ithaca, in the Odyssey, whose name he has inserted in his poem as the companion of Ulysses,( 13) in return for the care taken of him when afflicted with blindness.