STESICHORUS

stēsĭkˈərəs, fl. c.600 b.c., Greek lyric poet. He lived at Himera and seems to have been originally named Tisias or Teisias. Legend says he invented the choral "heroic hymn" and added the epode to the Greek strophe and antistrophe, thenceforth much used (e.g., by the tragedians and by Pindar and Ibycus). Fragments of his verse have survived.

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Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides
Book by C. M. Bowra; Clarendon Press, 1936
Subjects: Greek Poetry--History And Criticism, Poets, Greek
...II. ALCMAN 16 III. STESICHORUS 77 IV. ALCAEUS...Pindar, Bacchylides, Sappho, Anacreon, Stesichorus, Simonides, Ibycus, Alcaeus, and Alcman...scale than monody. The long odes of Stesichorus or Pindars Pythian IV would have...
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Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom
Book by Norman Austin; Cornell University Press, 1994
Subjects: Greek Literature--History And Criticism, Helen Of Troy (Greek Mythology) In Literature, Trojan War--Literature And The War
...71 4. Stesichorus and His Palinode 90...or "Recantation" of the lyric poet Stesichorus, the myth behind this story was local...see taking shape in the poetics of Stesichorus Palinode reacts by making Helen of...
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Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta
Book by Malcolm Davies; Oxford University, 1991
Subjects: Greek Poetry, Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
...GRAECORUM FRAGMENTA Volumen I ALCMAN . STESICHORUS IBYCUS POST D. L. PAGE EDIDIT MALCOLM...5 STESICHORUS 133...NOTHIGER, J., Die Sprache des Stesichorus und Ibycus Turici 1971 RACE...
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The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology"
Book by Robin Hard; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Mythology, Greek
...partially preserved in a surviving epitome. STESICHORUS first half of the sixth century BC...classed as an author of choral lyric, Stesichorus wrote long narrative poems that seem...almost nothing is preserved of them. Stesichorus himself became a subject of legend...
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The Songs of Aristophanes
Book by L. P. E. Parker; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Aristophanes--Versification, Greek Drama (Comedy)--History And Criticism, Greek Language--Metrics And Rhythmics, Greek Poetry--History And Criticism, Satire, Greek--History And Criticism
...strophe and antistrophe incorporate quotations from Stesichorus. Stesichorus Oresteia in its entirety can hardly have been...domesticated version of high lyric, and parody of Stesichorus is no way to describe it. The first part of the...
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journal articles on: Stesichorus  - 9 results

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Oh! Those Lovers of Discourse How Blind They Are!1
Journal article by Lyat Friedman; The American Journal of Semiotics, Vol. 10, 1993
...deliver. Fearing blindness, the fate of Stesichorus, who was stricken by blindness for speaking...second speech, a manic speech inspired by Stesichorus. Three different speeches, delivered...speech, whose seeds are attributed to Stesichorus, is a manic speech, perhaps even an...
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Vision, Metamorphosis, and the Poetics of Allegory in the Mutabilitie Cantos
Journal article by Louise Gilbert Freeman; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 45, 2005
Subjects: English poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Mutabilitie Cantos (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Spenser, Edmund--Criticism and interpretation
...Semelem vxorem ducaret, cuius sententiae fuit Stesichorus Himeraeus vel (voluit Acusilaus) qua illam compressit...that the hunter was clothed in a deer outfit to Stesichorus: "Stesichorus of Himera says that the goddess threw a deer-skin...
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Klytemnestra in Germany: Re-Visions of a Female Archetype by Crista Reing and Cristine Brücker
Journal article by Kathleen L. Komar; Germanic Review, Vol. 69, 1994
Subjects: Germanic Philology
...Klytemnestra does what she does. Stesichorus, who seems to have a soft spot in his...Klytemnestras behavior as caused by the gods, Stesichorus alleviates their personal guilt. (The...responsibility for an unpleasant situation.) Stesichorus seems to be alone, however, in the...
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The Beautiful Nation: Reflections on the Aesthetics of Hellenism
Journal article by Costas M. Constantinou; Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 31, 2006
Subjects: Aesthetics--Analysis, Hellenism--Analysis, Hellenism--Myths and legends
...Socrates reminds his interlocutor of Stesichoruss poem that Helen never went to Troy and how this recantation gave Stesichorus back his eyesight, unlike Homer...respect, Socrates follows not just Stesichorus but Herodotus, that other great...
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The City and the Poet
Journal article by Kenji Yoshino; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 114, 2005
Subjects: Crime victims--Laws, regulations and rules, Defense (Criminal procedure)--Laws, regulations and rules, Legal literature--Evaluation, Plato--Evaluation, Victims of crimes--Laws, regulations and rules
...the gods. (160) In atonement, Socrates follows the example of a fellow offender, the poet Stesichorus. (161) After defaming Helen of Troy, Stesichorus was struck blind until he composed a Palinode--a poem retracting a statement made in an earlier...
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magazine articles on: Stesichorus  - 2 results

 
 
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Author! Author!
Magazine article by William Logan; New Criterion, Vol. 19, December 2000
Subjects: Ashbery, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Your Name Here (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Komunyakaa from the worst of his habits. The new poems are condensed, allusive, and bite-sized. He writes of the classical poet Stesichorus: They say he lost his sight When he slandered Helen...
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Poetry
Magazine article by Andre Bernard; American Scholar, Vol. 70, Spring 2001
Subjects: Authors--Quotations, Literature--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Quotations
...that Socrates, when in prison and under sentence of death, asked a musician who was giving a fine rendering of a lyric by Stesichorus to teach him to do the same while there was still time. The musician asked what good this would be to him, seeing that he...


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encyclopedia articles on: Stesichorus  - 4 results

 
 
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Stesichorus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
STESICHORUS stesik r s, fl. c.600 b.c., Greek lyric poet. He lived at Himera and seems to have been originally named Tisias or Teisias...
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Himera
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Years later the Carthaginians destroyed (409 b.c.) the city. The citizens moved to nearby Thermae (modern Termini). The poet Stesichorus was born in Himera. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia...
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Greek Literature, Ancient
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Alcaeus , Sappho and Anacreon . The Dorian lyric for choral performance, developed with Alcman , Ibycus , and Stesichorus , achieved perfection in Pindar , Simonides of Ceos , and Bacchylides . The Classical Period Greek drama evolved...
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Helen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...forcibly abducted Helen; others that she fell in love with him and went willingly. In one peculiar account, originating in Stesichorus and used by Euripides, Helen was rescued by Proteus in Egypt, who substituted in her stead a phantom that sailed to Troy...


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