Note 1320 — Chapter IX · Sicyon, Megara, Miletus, Ephesus, Leontini, Agrigentum, Cumae
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Cp. Grote (ed. 1888), II. pp. 65–66, who acutely argues that Cleisthenes aimed mainly at suppressing not our Homer but the lost Thebais when he prohibited the recitation of Homer in Sicyon. The Thebais glorified the Dorian heroes who overthrew prehistoric Thebes.