There are 10 known extant lives of Homer. Eight of these are edited in Georg Westermann's "Vitarum Scriptores Graeci minores", including a piece called the "Contest of Homer and Hesiod". The longest "Life of Homer" is written in the Ionic dialect, and claims to be the work of Herodotus, but is certainly spurious (Pseudo-Herodotus). In all probability it belongs to the 2nd century AD, which was fruitful beyond all others in literary forgeries. The other lives are certainly not more ancient.