The names furnished us by Tatian are these:--Theagenes of Rhegium (the earliest writer of whom we are cognizant, contemporary with Cambyses); Stesimbrotos of Thasos (contemporary with Pericles[3]); Antimachos of Claros; Herodotos, Dionysios of Olynthos, Ephoros of Cyme; Philochoros of Athens, Metacleides, Chamæleon of Heracleia[4]; Zenodotos of Ephesus, (B.C. 280); Aristophanes of Byzantium (B.C. 264); Callimachus, whose poetry, by the way, is dryer and more vapid than his prose, if the little we have left of him allows us to form an opinion; Crates of Malfus (B.C. 157); Eratosthenes of Cyrene; Aristarchos of Samothrace, and Apollodoros of Athens. The minds or pens of these men in Hellas alone, were occupied with this grand subject; and in Rome, that city of translations and "crib," we find the pens of the scribes were at work, and prolific in prolixity. Besides these authors, there are others whose attempts at illustrating the text of the writers of antiquity have been met in a most illiberal manner; I mean the Scholiasts, who have been treated most unjustly. A goodly host of scribblers looks forth from the grave of antiquity. And here, before proceeding to speak of the theories of later times, it may be permitted me to suggest that casual allusions by writers who write not expressly on the subject, and who are sufficiently accurate on those points to which they have directed their attention, are often more valuable than the folios of writers who go on the principle of book-making. [Footnote 3: Plato, _Ion_, p. 550. c.; Xenoph. _Mem._ iv. 2. § 10.; _Sympos._ iii. 5.; Plutarch, _Themist._ 2. 24.; _Cim._ 4. 14. 16.; _Per._ 8. 10. 13. 26. 36.; Strabo, x. p. 472.; Athen. xiii. p. 598. e.] [Footnote 4: Quoted by Athenæus (ix. p. 374. a.) under the title of Περὶ τῆς ἀρχαίας κωμωδίας, which, however, is also the name of a work by Eumelus.] To enumerate the modern works of Homeric controversy, would be an endless and tedious task, nay, even useless, when so able and full an account exists in Engelmann's _Bibliotheca Classica_. The chief works, however, are Wolf's _Prolegomena_; Wood's _Essay on the Original Genius of Homer_; Creuzer, _Symbolik und Mythologie_; Hermann, _Briefwechsel mit Creuzer über Homer und Hesiod_; Welcker, _Der Epische Cyclus_; Lange, _Ueber die Kyklischen Dichter und den sogenannten Epischen Kyklus der Griechen_; Lachmann, _Fernere Betrachtungen über die Ilias_ (_Abhandl. Berlin. Acad. 1841_); Voss, Nitzsch, O. Müller, Thirlwall (_Hist. of Greece_, vol. i. appendix 1. p. 500. foll.), _Quarterly Review_, No. lxxxvii., Grote (_Hist. of Greece_, pt. i. chapter xxi. vol. ii.), Mure's _Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece_, the article in Smith's _Dictionary_, vol. ii. p. 500., and Giovanni Battista Vico (_Principi di Scienza nuova_).