Poet Semonides of Amorgos, who lived in the second half of the 7th century B.C., mentions for the first time that Homer comes from Chios, characterizing him as the poet from Chios, in one of his poems, of which only 200 verses remain. The iambic poet refers to the verse “the lineage of leaves, is the lineage of men’’ written by Homer and mentions that this is the best thought of the poet from Chios. In the Palatine Anthology, a collection of Greek epigrams and poems from the 10th c. A.D., an epigram written by poet Alkaios mentions that Chios will be the city honoring the poet’s work in eternity.