Editing Ios (section)

===The legend===
[[File:Bust of Homer at the port of Gialos on Ios, 13M998x.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.65|Bust of [[Homer]] in [[Ios (island)|Ios]]]]
The island is very strongly connected with Homer, because according to the legend, [[Homer]] died in Ios. Considered the greatest epic poet of the Greeks, the legend accounts that he died because he violated a Pythian oracle. According to [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], Homer visited the Delphi oracle to ask Pythia about his parents and origins. Pythia replied with the oracle "Your mother's home is the island of Ios, which will accept you when you die, but you should be careful of the enigma of the young children." The poet, however, broke the oracle and traveled to Ios. There he saw some small children fishing on the coast. He asked what they had caught and the children replied: "Whatever we get we leave it and whatever we don't get we take it with us". The children were talking about lice. Those who found them, killed them, but those who did not find them, had them to their heads. Homer did not find the answer, but he remembered the warning of Pythia. He was horrified and ran away quickly.<ref name="mixanitouxronou.gr">{{cite web|url=http://www.mixanitouxronou.gr/ok-pos-pethane-o-piitis-omiros-pou-apsifise-to-chrismo-tou-mantiou-o-thrilos-me-to-enigma-pou-den-katafere-na-lisi-ke-ton-odigise-sto-thanato/|title=Πώς πέθανε ο ποιητής Όμηρος που αψήφησε το χρησμό του μαντείου; Ο θρύλος με το αίνιγμα που δεν κατάφερε να λύσει και τον οδήγησε στο θάνατο - ΜΗΧΑΝΗ ΤΟΥ ΧΡΟΝΟΥ|date=16 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228232253/http://www.mixanitouxronou.gr/ok-pos-pethane-o-piitis-omiros-pou-apsifise-to-chrismo-tou-mantiou-o-thrilos-me-to-enigma-pou-den-katafere-na-lisi-ke-ton-odigise-sto-thanato/|archive-date=28 December 2017}}</ref> The road was muddy and the poet in his hurry slipped and fell, hitting his head and dying almost instantaneously.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4eNDAAAAYAAJ&q=%CE%A4%CE%95%CE%9B%CE%95%CE%A5%CE%A4%CE%97%CE%A3%CE%91%CF%82+%CE%95%CE%9D+%CE%A4%CE%97+%CE%99%CE%A9&pg=RA2-PA151 |title = Hē tou Hērodotou Halikarnasseōs historia (Romanized form)|author1 = Herodotus|year = 1761}}</ref>

According to another version, Homer died from his sadness that he did not solve the puzzle, while a third version says he was already seriously ill and went to Ios because he knew he would die. Of course, the death of Homer is not based on historical records, but on myths and traditions that circulated from oral tradition. [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] simply recorded a popular narrative.<ref name="mixanitouxronou.gr"/><ref name="tya.ios.gr"/>