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	Stesichorus, Greece, ancient history
		The name Stesichorus actually means "Chorus Master", so it might have been a title and not a name.
		Stesichorus was very creative and prolific, and is considered the first literary celebrity in Greece.
		According to an anecdote, Stesichorus was struck blind after he had written the first, traditional version, and did not regain his sight until he had completed the second one.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/history/ancient/stesichorus.htm (237 words)

	STESICHORUS - LoveToKnow Article on STESICHORUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Stesichorus indeed made a new departure by using lyric poetry to celebrate gods and heroes rather than human feelings and passions; this is what Quintilian (Instit.
		Stesichorus completed the form of the choral ode by adding the epode to the strophe and antistrophe; and you do not even know Stesichoruss three passed into a proverbial expression for unpardonable ignorance (unless the words simply mean, you do not even know three lines, or poems, of Stesichorus).
		He was famed in antiquity for the richness and splendour of his imagination and his style, although Quintilian censures his redundancy and Hermogenes remarks on the excessive sweetness that results from his abundant use of epithets.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/STESICHORUS.htm (509 words)

	Stesichorus
		Stesichorus (circa 640-555 BC), Greek lyric poet, a native of Himera in Sicily, or of Mataurus a Locrian[?] colony in the south of Italy.
		Brief as they are, they show us what Longinus meant by calling Stesichorus "most like Homer"; they are full of epic grandeur, and have a stately sublimity that reminds us of Pindar.
		The popular legends of Sicily also inspired his muse; he was the first to introduce the shepherd Daphnis who came to a miserable end after he had proved faithless to the nymph who loved him.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stesichorus.html (478 words)

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		In this poem, Stesichorus calls Homer's authority into question by asserting that an imaginary Helen was sent to Troy as a false and dishonorable sign for which the Greeks and Trojans brought down their civilizations, and the real Helen never deserted her husband.
		Stesichorus at first agreed with the Homeric version of the wicked Helen who caused shame to herself and all of Greek society by her unfaithful act.
		Stesichorus also agreed with Homer's version of Helen, but since he was from Sparta, he may have decided to take away the impurity from the goddesses name, who was worshiped in Sparta.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /classes/KOp.html (2864 words)

	STESICHORUS (c. 640–55... - Online Information article about STESICHORUS (c. 640–55...
		Stesichorus indeed made a new departure by using lyric See also:
		Daphnis who came to a miserable end after he had proved faith-less to the nymph who loved him.
		ignorance (unless the words simply mean, " you do not even know three lines, or poems, of Stesichorus ").
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SOU_STE/STESICHORUS_c_640555_BC_.html (673 words)

	Chapter 14
		Also the way in which these dactylo-epitrite meters of Stesichorus frame traditional phraseology is clearly related to the way in which roughly half of the verses in Homeric poetry are built, that is, where the main word break occurs immediately after the sequence _m_m_ {FORMAT} ("masculine" caesura).
		Paradoxically the dactylo-epitrites of the earlier figure, Stesichorus, seem to be less conservative at least in one respect than those of the later figure, Pindar, in that the rules of Stesichorean meter are moving in the direction of epic by tolerating the substitution of n_oo_oo__ for x_oo_oo__ {FORMAT}.
		Stesichorus PMG 193.15-16 in conjunction with Hesiod F 176.7 MW), affirms the seduction of Helen since the actual adultery of Paris and Helen traditionally took place during their voyage from Sparta to Egypt (cf.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/nagy/PHB/chapter14.html (9312 words)

	Seeing Red
		Stesichorus was a Sicilian Greek from the early classical age.
		Little of his poetry survives, but it was famous for being both sweet (a nightingale, it was said, sang on his lips in the cradle) and, according to the ancient rhetorician Quintilian, ''extravagant.'' Giving lyric poetry an epic grandeur, he failed to observe conventional lyric boundaries.
		As Stesichorus got his sight back by reinterpreting myth, Carson's reinterpretation turns myth into the recording and surviving of pain through the viewfinder of poetry.
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		While he evokes the full range of issues raised by his material and sometimes seems to be groping among them for the central thread to his argument his most consistent focus is on Helen's adultery as a serious embarrassment to Greek honor that Greek writers were collectively trying to remove.
		Stesichorus got as far as establishing that Helen did not go to Troy but left open the possibility that she spent the war years unchaperoned and still out of control.
		Herodotus took care of that defect when he endorsed a story he heard from some Egyptian priests that she had been confiscated from Paris by a noble pharaoh who kept her in Egypt until she was collected at the end of the war by Menelaus.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-9410-murnaghan-helen.txt (1270 words)

	Epode: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Epode (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When, with the appearance of Stesichorus and the evolution of choral lyric, a learned and artificial kind of poetry began to be cultivated in Greece, a new form, the epode-song, came into existence.
		It consisted of a verse of trimeter iambic, followed by a dimeter iambic, and it is reported that, although the epode was carried to its highest perfection by Stesichorus, an earlier poet, Archilochus, was really the inventor of this form.
		The epode soon took a firm place in choral poetry, which it lost when that branch of literature declined.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ep/Epode.html (492 words)

	Harvard University Press: Greek Lyric, III, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others by David A. Campbell
		The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BCE came from Sicily and southern Italy.
		Stesichorus was called by ancient writers "most Homeric"—a recognition of his epic themes and noble style.
		Like Stesichorus he wrote lyrical narratives on mythological themes, but he also composed erotic poems.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L476.html (357 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Autobiography of Red: a Novel in Verse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Stesichorus was a poetic innovator--he disrupted the stable descriptive traditions of oral Homeric poetry and, perhaps equally importantly, reinterpreted epic themes through the medium of lyric verse.
		Among the Stesichorus fragments are parts of a poem known as the "Geryoneis" which deals with the slaying of the winged red monster Geryon by Herakles (Hercules).
		Carson extends this frozen moment of youth: as well as translating passages from Stesichorus, she expands, reworks and invents a whole childhood for Geryon, relocating him into a more contemporaneous milieu with him and Herakles as young, strangely antagonistic lovers.
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		Stesichorus (638-555 B.C.) described how Roma, with her Trojan fleet, fled the war-torn city of Troy.
		They arrived in a beautiful place where visitors were "enticed to dream while being caressed by the off-shore breeze." Roma and her entourage, captivated by the idyllic spot, did not desire to leave.
		Plutarch, a Greek biographer and essayist who lived from approximately 46-120 A.D., popularized the myth in his work entitled "Romulus." Stesichorus was born just over a century after 753 B.C., which supporters of the Roma theory say strengthens their claims.
	www.italystl.com /ra/1035.htm (533 words)

	Stesichorus of Himnera
		To do so may have far-reaching effects if one's version of the past is accepted.
		Stesichorus is a famous example of one such attempt to do so.
		Following Stesichorus' version of the myth, Helen tells the spirit she never went with Paris and that a goddess took her to Egypt for the duration of the war.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng222/stesichorus_of_himnera.htm (688 words)

	Appendix
		In the dactylo-epitrites of Stesichorus, there are clear signs of parallelism in the distribution of these parallel pros and ia segments: for example, both pros~ and ia~ tend to be placed in the closing of metrical sequences.
		As I have argued elsewhere, this metrical innovation, pervasive in the diction of Stesichorus, is the reflex of the Greek linguistic innovation of contracting short vowels originally separated by intervocalic s and i {FORMAT: top of half-circle under i}.
		In the corpus of Stesichorus, this pattern of substitution is restricted to those long syllables that occur in slots that traditionally allow free variation between a single long and a single short, as for example in the first syllable of the pros.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/nagy/PHB/appendix.html (7520 words)

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		Because Stesichorus, by the earliest Account, was but VI Years old at that supposed time of Phalaris’s Death; and Pythagoras was not taken notice of in Greece till LXXX Years after it.
		IN the XCII Epistle, he threatens Stesichorus the Poet, for raising Money and Soldiers against him at Aluntium and Alaesa,καὶ εἰς Ἀλούπνον καὶ εἰς Ἄλαισαν: and that perhaps he might be snapt, before he got home again from Alaesa to Himera, ἐξ Ἀλαίσης εἰς Ἱμέραν.
		Stesichorus knew the World well enough, that those sort of requests are but a modest simulation; and a disobedience would have been easily pardon’d.
	www.philological.bham.ac.uk /bentley/text.html (9290 words)

	Poet: Stesichorus - All poems of Stesichorus
		Stesichorus was a lyric poet from Himera, who lived during the first half of the 6th century BC.
		Stesichorus was very creative and prolific, and is considered the f..
		Quoted in Plato's Phaedrus 243a: "For those who have sinned in the telling of myths there is an ancient purification, known not to Homer but to Stesichorus:...
	www.poemhunter.com /stesichorus/poet-37172 (257 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy; Helen in Stesichorus and in Gorgias; and Europa in Moschus...
		Stesichorus, who seems to have a soft spot in his...
		Semelem vxorem ducaret, cuius sententiae fuit Stesichorus Himeraeus vel (voluit Acusilaus) qua illam compressit...
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	Rome ponders a founding mother - theage.com.au
		Roma fell so in love with the spot that she conspired with other women to burn all the ships, so that the party would have to stay.
		The tale's claims are strengthened by the fact that Stesichorus was born just 115 years after the founding of Rome.
		According to legend, Romulus, one of the twins descended from Aeneas, prince of Troy, and suckled by a she-wolf after being cast adrift on the Tiber, founded Rome in 753 BC, after slaying his brother Remus.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/04/22/1050777253133.html (210 words)

	Cornell College: Classical Studies Program
		Stesichorus: the first author to suggest that Paris stole only a copy of Helen, while the real one was taken to Egypt.
		And if need be she must spend the next twenty years with her captor, Paris, then she will make those years more tolerable by surrendering herself to his charms.
		After Homer's interpretation of Helen's persona, an author by the name of Stesichorus became the first to suggest that the Helen of Troy was a mere copy of the actual Helen who was being imprisoned in Egypt.
	www.cornellcollege.edu /classical_studies/myth/helen (902 words)

	LOGOS MULTILINGUAL PORTAL
		The process of ‘depersonalization’ typical of Greek poetic culture is effectively gathered in this fragment of Stesichorus: "The Sun set on the golden basin, and with the Ocean currents it plunged to reach the mother, wife and beloved children".
		His poetry is therefore mythopoetic, but with an opposite value to that of Stesichorus.
		In this case, the metonymy rises to the dignity of metaphor, whereas in Stesichorus, it is the metaphor that becomes metonymy.
	www.logos.it /pls/dictionary/linguistic_resources.cap_let_3_7b?lang=en (501 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1286 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A lyric poet, older than Stesichorus, who mentioned him in one at least of his poems, and who borrowed from him in some of them.
		Among the rest, Stesichorus composed his poem entitled Oresteia ('O/je
		We also learn from Megacleides, on the authority of Stesichorus himself, that Xanthus represented Heracles as equipped, not in the dress and arms ascribed to him by Stesichorus and the later poets, but in the fashion in which he is described by Homer.
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	All poems of the poet: Stesichorus - works
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	Troy and Iliad
		In most traditions, the Dioscuri actually appear with the generation of heroes preceding this (Jason and the Argonauts, Hercules), which doesn't make temporal sense, as Helen and Clytemnestra would be quite old when they married Menelaus and Agamemnon.
		There was a legend that Stesichorus was punished in some way for his poems that were hostile to women in general and Helen in particular.
		This story of a phantom Helen going to Troy, while the real Helen remained faithful to her husband in Egypt, is very strange.
	staff.jccc.net /bnorcott/M&Lchapters/seventeen.htm (2177 words)

	Stesichorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Stesichorus, fragment 223 (D. Page, Poetae Melici Graeci)
		Plato adds another detail in his Republic 9.586c: "...just as Helen's phantom, according to Stesichorus, was fought over by the warriors at Troy in ignorance of the truth."
		Translations of Stesichorus by Richmond Lattimore and of other text by David.
	wings.buffalo.edu /academic/department/AandL/classics/epicpage/stesichorus.html (93 words)

	Book II - Chapter 20 : Aristotle's Rhetoric
		That is like using the lot to select athletes, instead of choosing those who are fit for the contest; or using the lot to select a steersman from among a ship's crew, as if we ought to take the man on whom the lot falls, and not the man who knows most about it."
		Instances of the fable are that of Stesichorus about Phalaris, and that of Aesop in defence of the popular leader.
		When the people of Himera had made Phalaris military dictator, and were going to give him a bodyguard, Stesichorus wound up a long talk by telling them the fable of the horse who had a field all to himself.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~honeyl/Rhetoric/rhet2-20.html (695 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Woman may have founded ancient Rome
		According to Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper, a fragment of writing by the Graeco-Sicilian poet Stesichorus (638-555 BC) recounts how a woman named Roma arrived with a Trojan fleet in an idyllic place that could easily be Rome.
		The scene was described as one of enchanting beauty, where before the setting sun the visitor was "enticed to dream while being caressed by the off-shore breeze".
		According to legend, Romulus, one of the male twins descended from Aeneas, prince of Troy, and suckled by a she-wolf after being cast adrift on the Tiber, founded ancient Rome in 753 BC, after slaying his brother Remus.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/22/wrome22.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/22/ixworld.html (249 words)

	Greek Mythology: GERYON / GERYONES Giant Constellation Orion w/ Pictures
		The giant was then placed in the heavens as the Constellation Orion, and his two-headed guard-dog Orthos as the constellations Canis Major and Minor.
		This, it is supposed, is why Stesichorus sould say of Geryon's herdman [Eurytion] that he was born' almost opposite famous Erytheia..
		Stesichorus says he has six hands and six feet and is winged." - Greek Lyric III Stesichorus, Geryoneis Frag S87 (from Scholiast on Hesiod's Theogony)
	www.theoi.com /Gigante/GiganteGeryon.html (2501 words)

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	Powell's Books - Loeb Classical Library #476: Greek Lyric: Volume III. Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others by ...
		Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others by David A. (edt) Campbell
		The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BC came from Sicily and southern Italy.
		Stesichorus was called by ancient writers "most Homeric"—a recognition of hisepic themes and noble style.
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