Chios claims Homer as its native son In this booklet Jill Dudley describes the ancient site north of the port of Chios where the author of the Iliad & the Odyssey taught & sang his epic poems She visits the temples of pagan gods who divinely intervened in the Trojan War & describes how Helen of Troy was worshipped as a goddess in the northwest of the island It is as the back cover of the booklet says all you need to know about the island's myths legends & its gods