Maeonides

English Etymology From en la Maeonides, from en grc Μαιονίδης. From traditions that his father was named Maeon, and/or that he hailed from Maeonia (that is, Lydia). en 1999 Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics Llewelyn Morgan 34 https://archive.org/details/patternsofredemp0000morg/page/34 As early as the fifth century [BC] there was a tradition to the effect that Homer's father was called Maeon ... One answer to [the question of Homer's ethnicity] had Homer as a native of Smyrna. Smyrna was in Lydia, and an earlier name for Lydia was Maeonia. Μαιονίδης — alternatively "the Lydian", or "the son of Maeon" — is regularly encountered as a variant appellation for Homer in the Hellenistic epigram: our earliest instance is in a poem of Antipater of Sidon. Maeonides, or more commonly the Latin adjective Maeonius, became a commonplace alternative to Homerus in Roman verse as well. Proper noun Another name for Homer, the ancient Greek epic poet. en Maionides Mæonides Maeonius Mæonius en 1952 J. A. K. Thomson Shakespeare and the Classics 171 https://archive.org/details/shakespeareclass0000thom/page/171 Quintus was the praenomen of Ennius, and Maeonides was the patronymic of Homer; so that to say ‘Maeonides Quintus’ is as much as to say ‘Homer Ennius’.