Holy Land Digital Image Collections

Bain, Robert E. M

Steamers at Smyrna--Where Homer was born, who wrote at the same time David did [Graphic]

Earthly Footsteps of The Man of Galilee Being Three Hundred and Eighty-Four Original Photographic Views and Descriptions of the Places Connected with the Earthly Life of Our Lord and His Apostles Traced with Note Book and Camera showing where Christ was born, brought up, baptized, tempted, transfigured and crucified, together with the scenes of his prayers, tears, miracles and sermons, and also places made sacred by the labors of his apostles, from Jerusalem to Rome by Bishop John H. Vincent, D.D., LL.D., Rev. James W. Lee, D.D., and R.E.M. Bain. London: W.A. Hammond, Holborn Hall, E.C.

St. Louis, 1894.

1 photograph : b&w ; 25.4 x 17.9 cm ( 10 x 7 in).

Photograph is printed in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(II. Samuel, xxii.)--The 22d chapter of Samuel contains a Psalm of David praising God for his powerful deliverance and manifold blessings. It is a sublime specimen of poetry, and about the same time that this was written, Homer lived who was born in Smyrna. Other cities claim to be the birth-place of Homer, but the inhabitants of Smyrna confirm the opinion that their city was the place of his birth by not only paying him divine honors but by showing the place which bore the poet's name. It is interesting to compare the writings of the two poets, David and Homer, living as they did in the same age about 1000 B.C. Such a comparison reveals the infinite difference between the rational conception which the Hebrews had of God and the mythological and puerile ideas of the divine held by the Greeks."

View of several large steamers and sailing ships and several small oared boats in the harbor

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Ships

Transportation

Travel

5597BAI/LVii323CAJS

CAJS Image Collection LVii BAI 5597 LVii323CAJS

The Lenkin Family Collection of Photography, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Smyrna (Turkey)