Wishing to honor this area brimming with Homeric traditions, Adamantios Korais named the first edition of rhapsodies 1 to 4 as ‘Volissian’. In 1811 the 1st Rhapsody was published in Paris, to be followed by the others. In the prologue of Rhapsody 1 and 2 published in 1817, Korais presents a fictional character called Papatrechas. He is a poor priest from Chios who, although uneducated, shares the same vision with Korais: publishing ancient works of literature in order to enlighten the Greeks. So, Korais writes that when he mentioned to Papatrechas that Homer came from the same village, Papatrechas was excited and wanted, despite his poverty, to contribute financially to the publication of the Homeric epics. He was so proud to have lived in the same village as the poet that, when reading Homer, he would say that he read his fellow man from Volissos