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But as for islands, Homer sets himself as it were studiously to commend them in these verses: He comes to the isle of Lemnos, and the town Where divine Thoas dwelt, of great renown; and As much as fruitful Lesbos does contain, A seat which Gods above do not disdain; and When he to th’ lofty hills of Scyros came, And took the town that boasts Enyeus’s name; and These from Dulichium and th’ Echinades, Blest isles, that lie ’gainst Elis, o’er the seas.Il. XIV. 230; XXIV. 544; IX. 668; II. 625. And among the famous men that dwelt in islands they reckon Aeolus, a great favorite of the Gods, the most prudent Ulysses, the most valiant Ajax, and Alcinous, the most courteous entertainer of strangers.