 Homer is connected with the valley of Smyrna and the banks of the Meles.His figure was one of the stock types on coins of Smyrna, one class of which showed the poet sitting, holding a volumen on his knees, and supporting his chin on his right hand was called "Homerian" by numismatists.The epithet "Melesigenes" (which means, "son of Meles" was applied to him.