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”Hom. Od. 11.327Not that Homer was unaware of necklaces made of various materials. [4] For example, in the speech of Eumaeus to Odysseus before Telemachus reaches the court from Pylus, he says:—“There came a cunning man to the home of my father,
With a necklace of gold strung with amber in between.
”Hom. Od. 15.459 [5] Again, in the passage called the gifts of Penelope, for he represents the wooers, Eurymachus among them, offering her gifts, he says:—“And Eurymachus straightway brought a necklace of varied materials,
Of gold strung with pieces of amber, like the sun.
”Hom. Od. 18.295But Homer does not say that the necklace given to Eriphyle was of gold varied with stones. So probably the scepter is the only work of Hephaestus. [6] There is beyond the city a crag called Petrachus. Here they hold that Cronus was deceived, and received from Rhea a stone instead of Zeus, and there is a small image of Zeus on the summit of the mountain. [7] Here in Chaeroneia they distil unguents from flowers, namely, the lily, the rose, the narcissus and the iris. These prove to be cures for the pains of men. The unguent from the rose, if it be smeared on wooden images, prevents their decaying. The iris grows in marshes, is in size as large as a lily, but is not white in color, and smells less sweet.
1 See Paus. 8.24.10.
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