M3 - Article (Academic Journal) Hello Select your address Black Friday Deals Best Sellers Gift Ideas Electronics Customer Service Books New Releases Home Computers Gift Cards Coupons Sell He was called Stesichorus because he was the first to establish (stesai) a chorus of singers to the cithara; his name was originally Tisias. He was ranked among the nine lyric poets esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria and yet his work attracted relatively little interest among ancient commentators,[2] so that remarkably few fragments of his poetry now survive. His works, according to the Suda, were collected in 26 books but each of these was probably a long, narrative poem. "[56] The account is repeated by Pliny the Elder[57] but it was the epic qualities of his work that most impressed ancient commentators,[50] though with some reservations on the part of Quintillian: "The greatness of Stesichorus' genius is shown among other things by his subject-matter: he sings of the most important wars and the most famous commanders and sustains on his lyre the weight of epic poetry. of the Sack of Troy in Athenaeus should be connected with the above papyrus; (ii) that the resulting frag ment cornes from the beginning of the poem; (iii) that careful considération of the fragment affords us a rare chance to appreciate aspects of Stesichorus' poetic technique. It can be appreciated today as never before, thanks to the recent discovery of ancient manuscripts buried for some two millennia in the sands of Egypt. See The Queen's Speech in the Lille fragment for more on Stesichorus's style. Stesichorus was a Greek poet from the first half of the 6th century BCE. Helen of Troy's bad character was a common theme among poets such as Sappho and Alcaeus and, according to various ancient accounts, Stesichorus viewed her in the same light until she magically punished him with blindness for blaspheming her in one of his poems. – Charles Seagal.[65]. Modern scholars tend to accept the general thrust of the ancient comments – even the 'fault' noted by Quintillian gets endorsement: 'longwindedness', as one modern scholar calls it, citing, as proof of it, the interval of 400 lines separating Geryon's death from his eloquent anticipation of it. [36], Stesichorus's lyrical treatment of epic themes was well-suited to a western Greek audience, owing to the popularity of hero-cults in southern Italy and Magna Graeca, as for example the cult of Philoctetes at Sybaris, Diomedes at Thurii and the Atreidae at Tarentum. [72] The enduring freshness of his art, in spite of its epic traditions, is borne out by Ammianus Marcellinus in an anecdote about Socrates: happening to overhear, on the eve of his own execution, the rendition of a song of Stesichorus, the old philosopher asked to be taught it: "So that I may know something more when I depart from life." Quintillian[58], In a similar vein, Dionysius of Halicarnassus commends Stesichorus for "...the magnificence of the settings of his subject matter; in them he has preserved the traits and reputations of his characters",[59] and Longinus puts him in select company with Herodotus, Archilochus and Plato as the 'most Homeric' of authors.[60]. [19] Aristotle quoted a speech the poet is supposed to have made to the people of Himera warning them against the tyrannical ambitions of Phalaris. In date he was later than the lyric poet Alcman, since he was born in the 37th Olympiad (632/28 BC). 2. He died in the 56th Olympiad (556/2 BC). [69] Stesichorus adapted the simile to restore Death's ugliness while still retaining the poignancy of the moment:[70], The mutual self-reflection of the two passages is part of the novel aesthetic experience that Stesichorus here puts into play. Charles Segal, 'Archaic Choral Lyric' – P. Easterling and E. Kenney (eds). / Finglass, P. J. T1 - The glorious water-carrier: Stesichorus’ Sack of Troy. Stesichorus indeed made a new departure by using lyric poetry to celebrate gods and heroes rather than human feelings and passions. [32] According to Stephanus of Byzantium[33] and the philosopher Plato[34] the poet's father was named Euphemus, but an inscription on a herm from Tivoli listed him as Euclides. [41] His poetry included a description of the river Himera[42] as well as praise for the town named after it,[43] and his poem Geryoneis included a description of Pallantium in Arcadia. [40] On the other hand, a Doric/Ionian flavour was fashionable among later poets — it is found in the 'choral' lyrics of the Ionian poets Simonides and Bacchylides — and it might have been fashionable even in Stesichorus's own day. 187–269, 293, 321 finglass, cett. davies/finglass) 533 Fragments perhaps by Stesichorus (fr. Suda claims this three-stanza format was popularly referred to as the three of Stesichorus in a proverbial saying rebuking cultural buffoons ("You don't even know the three of Stesichorus!"). [49], Many modern scholars don't accept the Suda's claim that Stesichorus was named for his innovations in choral poetry — there are good reasons to believe that his lyrical narratives were composed for solo performance (see Works below). Phonetics, dialectology and language history. The Sack of Troy Seeing what splendid results were achieved by others in the Geryoneis (P.Oxy?617), I attempted, with some success, to reconstruct the metrical scheme of the IIiu Persis (P. Oxy.2619). STESICHORUS REDIVIVUS I. Stesichorus' lyric poetry vividly recreates the most dramatic episodes of Greek myth: the labours of Heracles, the sack of Troy, the vengeance of Orestes, and more besides. Whether or not it was a choral technique, the triadic structure of Stesichorean lyrics allowed for novel arrangements of dactylic meter – the dominant meter in his poems and also the defining meter of Homeric epic – thus allowing for Homeric phrasing to be adapted to new settings. Stesichorus Last updated January 25, 2020 A scene from the Tabula Iliaca, bearing the inscription "Sack of Troy according to Stesichorus". Jasper Griffin, "Greek Myth and Hesiod", J. Boardman, J. Griffin and O. Murray (eds), Richard Lattimore translation, "Hesiod" Intro. This item is part of JSTOR collection It publishes articles of almost all disciplines connected with the Greek and Roman World, from literature, history, philosophy, culture, mainly, but not exclusively based on inscriptions and papyri, but also on coins and archaeological material. His poems are in the Doric dialect and in 26 books. It is one of the exciting qualities of early Greek culture that forms continue to evolve, but the old traditions still remain strong as points of stability and proud community, unifying but not suffocating." option. Y1 - 2014. There is, for example, a scene showing Aeneas and his father Anchises departing 'for Hesperia' with 'sacred objects', which might have more to do with the poetry of Virgil than with that of Stesichorus.[101][102][103]. pp. [39] His poetry reveals both Doric and Ionian influences and this is consistent with the Suda'a claim that his birthplace was either Metauria or Himera, both of which were founded by colonists of mixed Ionian/Doric descent. Stesichorus (Ancient Greek: Στησίχορος, circa 640 – 555 BCE) was the first great poet of the Greek West. Request Permissions. You didn't reach the walls of Troy. Helen of Troy's bad character was a common theme among poets such as Sappho and Alcaeus[53] and, according to various ancient accounts, Stesichorus viewed her in the same light until she magically punished him with blindness for blaspheming her in one of his poems. Several of his poems sung of the adventures of Heracles; one dealt with the siege of Thebes, another with the sack of Troy. Stesichoros' Fragmente und Biographie by Stesichorus ( Book ) La chaste Sappho de Lesbos et Stesichore dont la concurrence et les prétentions lui inspirèrent l'Ode II. [21] According to Lucian, the poet lived to 85 years of age. [45] Traditional accounts indicate that he was politically active in Magna Graeca. Sack of Troy (davies/finglass) 395 Cerberus (davies/finglass) 459 Cycnus (davies/finglass) 462 The Returns (davies/finglass) 470 The Returns? This is the accepted author manuscript (AAM). TY - JOUR. ©2000-2020 ITHAKA. Achetez neuf ou d'occasion But I know of no poet, and of no prose-writer, who makes mention of Xenodikê. [in Russian] 1978 1. Sack of Troy: Some scholars think the content of the poem can be deduced from a relief carved onto a monument near Rome, ... Scholars are divided as to whether or not it accurately depicts incidents described by Stesichorus in his poem Sack of Troy. 102 See J. Kwapisz, The Greek Figure Poems , op. To access this article, please, Access everything in the JPASS collection, Download up to 10 article PDFs to save and keep, Download up to 120 article PDFs to save and keep. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres[1] but he is also famous for some ancient traditions about his life, such as his opposition to the tyrant Phalaris, and the blindness he is said to have incurred and cured by composing verses first insulting and then flattering to Helen of Troy. Born probably in Metaurus in South Italy (today’s Gioia Tauro), he subsequently settled in Himera on the north coast of Sicily. I. Some say that he came from Himera in Sicily, but that was due to him moving from Metauros to Himera later in life. The idea that Apollodorus' account of the sack of Troy can be used to reconstruct Stesichorus' poem on that subject, put forward in a recent issue of this journal, unfortunately proves overstated. Luvian ahha ~ Greek a[cri // Ancient Balkan Studies 3. Another ancient tradition, told by Stesichorus, tells of how "not she, but her wraith only, had passed to Troy, while she was borne by the Gods to the land of Egypt, and there remained until the day when her lord , turning aside on the homeward voyage, should find her there." Dr. Rudolf Habelt Ltd. was founded in 1948 as an antiquarian bookshop. [66] yet Stesichorus adapted Homeric motifs to create a humanized portrait of the monster,[67] whose death in battle mirrors the death of Gorgythion in Homer's Iliad, translated here by Richard Lattimore: Homer here transforms Gorgythion's death in battle into a thing of beauty—the poppy has not wilted or died. Il y a, par exemple, une scène montrant Enée et son père Anchises partant «pour Hespérie » avec des «objets sacrés», ce qui pourrait avoir plus à voir avec la poésie de Virgile qu'avec celle de Stesichorus. All Rights Reserved. P.Oxy.2506 fr.26col.i, cited by David Cambell. Stesichorus composed both a ‘Sack of Troy’ and a ‘Wooden Horse’; ‘P.Oxy 2803 represents the latter, 2619 presumably the former.’ See Schade 2003: 120–121; Pardini 1995: 68–71; Willi 2008: 87 with n. 155. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik Read your article online and download the PDF from your email or your account. p. 13. The Suda in yet another entry refers to the fact, now verified by Papyrus fragments, that Stesichorus composed verses in units of three stanzas (strophe, antistrophe and epode), a format later followed by poets such as Bacchylides and Pindar. 101 See P. J. Finglass, “How Stesichorus Began his Sack of Troy,” ZPE 185, 2013, pp. "[3] Recent discoveries, recorded on Egyptian papyrus (notably and controversially, the Lille Stesichorus),[4] have led to some improvements in our understanding of his work, confirming his role as a link between Homer's epic narrative and the lyric narrative of poets like Pindar. Moreover the name wasn't unique — there seems to have been more than one poet of this name[50] (see Spurious works below). Over recent decades, however, the recovery of substantial portions of his poetry has enabled a reassessment of his significance. Despite having an agonizingly fervent wish to bury her son herself, in the end, it was Hecuba, her mother-in-law, who prepared his body for proper burial. He was a lyric poet. As one scholar observed in 1967: "Time has dealt more harshly with Stesichorus than with any other major lyric poet. For terms and use, please refer to our Terms and Conditions The group of editors from different disciplines evaluate the incoming manuscripts including also referees from other countries. It was residence of the poets Ibycus and Stesichorus (c. [38] On the other hand, the western Greeks were not very different from their eastern counterparts and his poetry cannot be regarded exclusively as a product of the Greek West . [18] Nevertheless, the Suda's dates "fit reasonably well" with other indications of Stesichorus's life-span — for example, they are consistent with a claim elsewhere in Suda that the poet Sappho was his contemporary, along with Alcaeus and Pittacus, and also with the claim, attested by other sources, that Phalaris was his contemporary. The Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, founded by Reinhold Merkelbach und Ludwig Koenen in 1967, publishes four to five volumes per year, altogether 162 volumes since 1967. [30] Stesichorus might be regarded as Hesiod's literary "heir" (his treatment of Helen in the Palinode, for example, may have owed much to Hesiod's Catalogue of Women)[31] and maybe this was the source of confusion about a family relationship. The development of *u in the Pamphylian dialect // Linguistic studies 1976. Noté /5. [63] Moreover, the versatility of lyric meter is suited to solo performance with self-accompaniment on the lyre[64] – which is how Homer himself delivered poetry. When exiled from Pallantium in Arcadia he came to Katane (Catania) and when he died there was buried in front of the gate which is called Stesichorean after him. With a personal account, you can read up to 100 articles each month for free. A remarkable example is what might have been Stesichorus’ most famous and most debated poem, ... For example, at F 103.27 and 32 ( Sack of Troy) Finglass’s readings are not supported by what I can see in available reproductions. According to one modern scholar, however, this saying could instead refer to the following three lines of his poem The Palinode, addressed to Helen of Troy:[51]. Athenaeus 4.172de, cited by David Cambell, "Ooops! Stesichorus was from Himera in Sicily and probably lived in the first half of the sixth century B.C. Moscow, 1976. Sack of Troy by the Greek poet Stesichorus. A History of Ancient Greek Literature", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stesichorus&oldid=992863778, Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 7 December 2020, at 14:35. © 2013 Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH Topics: Poesia grega arcaica, Estesícoro, Saque de Troia., Philology. [4] Possibly Stesichorus was even more Homeric than ancient commentators realized – they had assumed that he composed verses for performance by choirs (the triadic structure of the stanzas, comprising strophe, antistrophe and epode, is consistent with choreographed movement) but a poem such as the Geryoneis included some 1500 lines and it probably required about four hours to perform – longer than a chorus might reasonably be expected to dance. A nineteenth century translation imaginatively fills in the gaps while communicating something of the richness of the language: Stesichorus exercised an important influence on the representation of myth in 6th century art[10] and on the development of Athenian dramatic poetry.[11]. T1 - The glorious water-carrier: Stesichorus’ Sack of Troy. [54] According to a colourful account recorded by Pausanias, she later sent an explanation to Stesichorus via a man from Croton, who was on a pilgrimage to White Island in the Black Sea (near the mouth of the Blue Danube), and it was in response to this that Stesichorus composed the Palinode,[55] absolving her of all blame for the Trojan War and thus restoring himself to full sight. cit., pp. [37] It was also a sympathetic environment for his most famous poem, The Palinode, composed in praise of Helen, an important cult figure in the Doric diaspora. Check out using a credit card or bank account with. (davies/finglass) 472 Oresteia (davies/finglass) 482 Scylla (davies/finglass) 512 Boarhunters (davies/finglass) 515 Unplaced fragments (frr. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA. [25], The Suda's claim that Hesiod was the father of Stesichorus can be dismissed as "fantasy"[26] yet it is also mentioned by Tzetzes[27] and the Hesiodic scholiast Proclus[28] (one of them however named the mother of Stesichorus via Hesiod as Ctimene and the other as Clymene). Aristotle mentions two public speeches by Stesichorus: one to the people of Himera, warning them against Phalaris, and another to the people of Locri, warning them against presumption (possibly referring to their war against Rhegium). The first step was to identify strophe and antistrophe in the line-ends of fr.l col. The ancients associated the lyrical qualities of Stesichorus with the voice of the nightingale, as in this quote from the Palatine Anthology: "...at his birth, when he had just reached the light of day, a nightingale, travelling through the air from somewhere or other, perched unnoticed on his lips and struck up her clear song. 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