Dialogue

1 Phaedr|     Metrodorus, had found in Homer and mythology hidden meanings.
2 Phaedr| famous men and women such as Homer and Hesiod, Anacreon and
3 Phaedr|  hundred years if we exclude Homer, the genius of Hellas had
4 Phaedr|    which was devised, not by Homer, for he never had the wit
5 Phaedr|   than either Stesichorus or Homer, in that I am going to make
6 Phaedr|   the apocryphal writings of Homer in which the name occurs.
7 Phaedr|     composers of speeches—to Homer and other writers of poems,