In this paper I considered two fragments of the Geryoneis of Stesichorus and its descriptions of the Western . The dog smelled him there and went after him, but he struck it with his club, and when the cowherd Eurytion came to help the dog, he slew him as well. In = Athenaei Naucratitae Deipnosophistarum. 0000010456 00000 n . 184 (trans. [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. 120 (trans. Carsonclassicist, translator, and writerintroduces the ancient Greek poet Stesichoros, whose "Geryoneis" serves as the inspiration for Autobiography of Red. Online purchasing will be unavailable between 18:00 BST and 19:00 BST on Tuesday 20th September due to essential maintenance work. 1986. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. "Kallirhoe (Callirhoe), daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus) lying in the embraces of powerful-minded Khrysaor (Chrysaor) through Aphrodite the golden bore him a son, most powerful of all men mortal, Geryones, whom Herakles in his great strength killed over his dragfoot cattle in water-washed Erytheia [the Sunset Isle]. : Aeschylus, Fragment 37 Heracleidae (from Scholiast on Aristeides) : Plato, Gorgias 484b (trans. bitter destruction; and he [Geryon] kept his shield in front of (his chest, but the other struck his brow with a stone); and from his head (immediately with a great clatter) fell the helmet with its horse-hair plume; (and it remained there) on the ground . [31] The poet's mathematically inclined brother was named Mamertinus by the Suda but a scholiast in a commentary on Euclid named him Mamercus. Curtis's preface . On the other hand, Stesichorus said that Iphigenia was the daughter of Theseus and Helen, which obviously implies that Helen was of . 0000041002 00000 n . He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres 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 . Greek Lyric III) (Greek lyric C7th to C6th B.C.) "The poets who came after Homeros (Homer) keep dinning into our ears similar stories [myths set in Iberia (Spain)]: the expedition of Herakles in quest of the kine of Geryon and likewise the expedition which he made in quest of the golden apples of the Hesperides. The same quotation recurs in Clemens of Alexandria, who substitutes the word and a detail that subtly points to Athena Skiras in whose honor a festival was celebrated on the twelfth of the month Skirophorion: , , , . . It was originally conceived to be situated off the coast of Epeirus, but afterwards it was identified either with Gades or the Balearian islands, and was at all times believed to be in the distant west. Geryoneis in Athenaeus' . Lycophron also builds on the ambiguity of, , Pregnancy and child-birth remain at the center of Tryphiodorus vision (382395). Rckseitentitel auf Papyrusrollen.. 9 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. The fragment here taken into account, PMGF S15 + S21, describes the beginning of the duel between the hero and the monster: Heracles attacks Geryon by stealth, striking his brow with a missile, likely a stone (S15 i.1-14). 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. In date he was later than the lyric poet Alcman, since he was born in the 37th Olympiad (632/28 BC). [99], Bovillae, about twelve miles outside Rome, was the original site of a monument dating from the Augustan period and now located in the Capitoline Museum. Stesichorus at Bovillae?. 17. The Epic Cycle and Fragments. In Foley 2005:344352. The implications of, The laws of nature are inverted and the boundaries between life and death are blurred ever since Odysseus filled (, The Cyclops scene forms the inverted analogy of the wooden horse. "[Depicted on the shield of Herakles' grandson Eurypylos :] There lay the bulk of giant Geryon dead mid his kine. 87 ff (trans. "[Kallirhoe (Callirhoe) addresses her son Geryon :] I, unhappy woman, miserable in the child I bore, miserable in my sufferings; but I beseech you, Geryon, if ever I offered you my breast . ", Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. There are three appendices: the first two are Stesichorean testimonia and the third contains Indo-Iranian parallels. 0000020677 00000 n Occasionally there are very thoughtful comments on literary issues, as for example the remarks on the series of dactyls in fragment 1 (page 103) or on parallel structure in Fragment 7 (page 122). He acts a prominent part in the stories of Heracles. . 36. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) He writes on early Greek poetry; Old Comedy; Hellenistic poetry; and the Greek literature and culture of the Roman Empire. 5 : Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. Sleeps the dim Night in solitary valleys, The specific dates given by the Suda for Stesichorus have been dismissed by one modern scholar as "specious precision"[13] its dates for the floruit of Alcman (the 27th Olympiad), the life of Stesichorus (37th56th Olympiads) and the birth of Simonides (the 56th Olympiad) virtually lay these three poets end-to-end, a coincidence that seems to underscore a convenient division between old and new styles of poetry. It may be connected with the ancient Greek word g (earth) or gry (singing). There is an English translation in the Everyman Classics series (1987) by Faulkes . Before him slain lay that most murderous hound Orthros (Orthrus), in furious might like Kerberos (Cerberus) his brother-hound: a herdman lay thereby, Eurytion, all bedabbled with his blood. [50] 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,[51] absolving her of all blame for the Trojan War and thus restoring himself to full sight. "Eurystheus then enjoined him [Herakles] as a tenth Labour the bringing back of the cattle of Geryones, which pastured in the parts of Iberia [Spain] which slope towards the ocean. ((lacuna)) Obey me, my child.", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S13 (from Papyri) : 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. Showerman) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. 5, The University of Michigan Press, 1959, Pausanias 3.19.1113, cited by Campbell in. 1988. [59] Moreover, the versatility of lyric meter is suited to solo performance with self-accompaniment on the lyre[60] which is how Homer himself delivered poetry. 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. : Herodotus, Histories 4. For Geryones, being three-headed, gave Herakles one hell of a struggle. Translation into Latin by Johannes . I published some thoughts about it in the Oxford Classical Text Lyrica Graeca Selecta in 1968, and I now give the detail of the work on which that publication was based, together with the results of work which I have done since. Stesichorus: The Geryones - Volume 93. Athenian Red Figure Vase Painting C6th B.C. 0 "Stesichorus", by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870. The Portrayal of the Monster Geryon in Stesichorus' "Geryoneis", in Trends in Classics. . Stesichorus. [40] His possible exile from Arcadia is attributed by one modern scholar to rivalry between Tegea and Sparta. Campbell, Vol. only a poem's precedents but also its receptionis in the case of the Geryoneis crucial to our understanding of the Stesichorus' mastery of allusion and creativity as a poet in his own right. Gaselee) (Greek poet C1st B.C.) Osservazioni e congetture alla Gerioneide e alla Ilioupersis di Stesicoro., Luppe, W. 1977. Boulei diamachesthai Geruoni tetraptiloi (trans. And westward steered where, far oer ocean wild, Stesichorus (Greek , Stsikhoros, c. 630 555 BC) was the first great lyric poet of the West. The fetching of these oxen was a subject which was capable of great poetical embellishments, owing to the distant regions into which it carried the hero. Being the Remains of all the Greek Lyric Poets from Eumelus to Timotheus Excepting Pindar. "[The labours of Heracles :] Among his herds in the distant land of Hesperia [Spain] the three-shaped shepherd [Geryon] of the Tartesian shore was killed and his cattle driven as spoil from the farthest west; Cithaeron has fed the herd once to Oceanus known. ((lacuna)) by (your feasting). (With these words she opened) her fragrant robe. "[A metaphor employed by Plato :] If a man were gifted by nature with the frame of a Geryon or a Briareus, with his hundred hands, he ought to be able to throw a hundred darts. "The triple-bodied Geryon, son of Chrysaor, he [Heracles] killed with a single weapon. "Herakles, it is told, after he had taken the kine of Geryones from Erytheia, was wandering through the country of the Keltoi (Celts). Drawing on surviving fragments of the lyric poet Stesichorus's work Geryoneis, this is a moving coming-of-age tale about love and yearning which is whimsical, sad, and a fascinating take on a . It's a blending of modern and archaic, mythic and mundane: part queer coming-of-age novel, part reimagined fragmentary poem by the Greek poet Stesichorus. CHRYSAOR (Chrusar). Bury) : Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. . Wroth with the daughters for the fathers sake, the ghost of three-bodied Geryon. 2803 (Stesichoros)., . Text, apparatus criticus and translation appear together on the page as much as possible, with commentary following as a unit. Texts retrieved July 2021. 0000001888 00000 n Stesichorus and his Poetry. PhD diss., University of Chicago. Composed in the 6th century BC, it narrates an episode from the Heracles myth in which the hero steals the cattle of Geryon, a three-bodied monster with a human face. Curtis offers the first commentary on Stesichorus' Geryoneis. ((lacuna)) gall, the anguish of the dapple-necked Hydra, destroyer of men [i.e. Gades, now Cadiz] and the nearby island Erytheia. "[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. Campbell, Vol. Euripides, the tragedian who dwells on the ruin of Troy and the plight of her female residents, resumes the imagery of pregnancy in unequivocal terms, pressing the limits between metaphor and reality with words such as (see Plotin. Denys Page 1973:138-154 gives the fragmentary Greek and pieces together a translation by overlaying the fragments with the account in Bibliotheke. Mr Barrett gave me a copy of his lecture, which is not yet published, and with his usual generosity has allowed me to make use of it. I have a few minor criticisms. . Stesichorus Geryoneis. . Stesichorus: Poet and Thinker., . 1982. The poet Stesichorus wrote a poem "Geryoneis" () in the sixth century BC, which was apparently the source of this section in Bibliotheke; it contains the first reference to Tartessus.From the fragmentary papyri found at Oxyrhyncus it is possible (although there is no evidence) that Stesichorus inserted a character, Menoites, who reported the theft of the cattle to Geryon. 190 0 obj<>stream [26] 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)[27] and maybe this was the source of confusion about a family relationship. 13 : He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres 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. Bravi, L. 2007. " Stesichorus ," in Encyclopdia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1928, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Greek Lyric III) (Greek lyric C7th to C6th B.C.) ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 2 : Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. Carson's work explores the translation of the Geryoneis, a lost work about the monster Geryon and his famed cattle. for this article. By contrast, the Greeks, with whom the wooden horse is filled, wait to be reborn and start their massacre. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.) : Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5. . across Okeanos (Oceanus) to reach Geryon in Erytheia]; but the first to give this story is the author of the Titanomakhia. ((lacuna)) against the mighty man; . "Boulei diamachesthai Geruoni tetraptiloi--Do you want to do battle with a four-winged Geryon? Curtis is cautious about attributing fragments to the poem, but bold in his reconstruction. Spain] at a distance of about 100 yards is another island one mile long and one mile broad, on which the town of Gadis was previously situated; Ephorus and Philistus call this island Erythea . When he reached Erytheia he camped on Mount Atlas. : Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. XII 424425); or as . L32ndaYtQKd"\>Nl>gRP+D0d.QY0=4{Q-`e3Yf/. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Parthenius, Love Romances 30 (trans. 0000005778 00000 n Stesichorus (/ s t s k r s /; Greek: , Stsichoros; c. 630 - 555 BC) was a Greek lyric poet native of today's Calabria (Southern Italy). 155 36 2. in the ode says--Law the sovereign of all, mortals and immortals, which, so he continues,--Carries all with highest hand, justifying the utmost force: in proof I take the deeds of Herakles, for unpurchased. . Liebregts, Peter. . ", Strabo, Geography 3. ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. [16] The Byzantine grammarian Tzetzes also listed him as a contemporary of the tyrant and yet made him a contemporary of the philosopher Pythagoras as well. to C1st A.D.) : Virgil, Aeneid 6. Though we should take into account that these fragments are a loose and creative translation of Stesichoros . For a rare example see fragment 19, line 1, where in the commentary a generous comment is made concerning Lobels alternative conjecture (pages 91 and 163). [100] Scholars are divided as to whether or not it accurately depicts incidents described by Stesichorus in his poem Sack of Troy. Minghao laughs. Edited and translated into Latin by Johannes Schweighuser. Stesichorus: The Sack of Troy and the Wooden Horse., Pardini, A. XXXII 2617. W. Baumann and W. Pratt. "Theolytos (Theolytus) says that he [Herakles] sailed across the sea in a cauldron [i.e. "(For no-one) remained by the side of Zeus, king of all [in the assembly of the gods]; then grey-eyed Athene spoke eloquently to her stout-hearted uncle, driver of horses [Poseidon]: Come now, remember the promise you gave and (do not wish to save) Geryon from death.", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S15 (from Papyri) : [1.1] KHRYSAOR & KALLIRHOE (Hesiod Theogony 287, Stesichorus Geryoneis Frag, Apollodorus 2.106, Hyginus Pref) 106 - 109 (trans. GERYON or GERYONES (Gruons), a son of Chrysaor and Calirrho, a fabulous king of Hesperia, who is described as a being with three heads, and possessing magnificent oxen in the island of Erytheia. 1 : Only a very few possibly authentic but small fragments are omitted. [41] Traditional accounts indicate that he was politically active in Magna Graeca. . [36] 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. 0000009155 00000 n Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) : "These [the breed of bulls called Syrian] are they which report said Herakles, the mighty son of Zeus, when fulfilling his labours, drove of old from Erytheia, what time he fought with Geryoneus beside Okeanos (Oceanus) and slew him amid the crags; since he was doomed to fulfil yet another labour, not for Hera nor at the behest of Eurystheus, but for his comrade Arkhippos (Archippus), lord of holy Pella. 0000010057 00000 n The result is that the translation greatly aids a scholar trying to make sense of the Greek (probably Curtis primary audience), but would not be a good read for a Greekless student trying to figure out what the poem was like. 35. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. His Cassandra, in a maenadic ecstasy, speaks of the birth pangs of Hecubas dreams, and of the oncoming, Tryphiodorus echoes the Odyssean liquid metaphor, , when he describes how the kings flowed from the carved belly, , I will conclude my study of the Stesichorean. 3 vols. There a crest broke away in a storm, and there appeared bones the shape of which led one to suppose that they were human, but from their size one would never have thought it. ", Plato, Laws 795c (trans. : Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. [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. to C1st A.D.) : Ovid, Heroides 9. ). 11 (trans. ", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S7 (from Strabo, Geography) (trans. Ipse autem in lucum se contulit. 35. to C1st A.D.) : Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 1987. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. "[73], According to the Suda, the works of Stesichorus were collected in 26 books, but each of these was probably a long, narrative poem. ", Plato, Gorgias 484b (trans. Stesichorus and the Epic Tradition. PhD diss., University of British Columbia. 21-44), discute a 191-92. 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). Public Poetry. In Gerber 1997:223252. 1. Moreover the name wasn't unique there seems to have been more than one poet of this name[46] (see Spurious works below). ", Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Bk2 (trans. Has data issue: true Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : . Aristophanes [writes] : do you want to do battle with a four-winged Geryones?. ", Suidas s.v. . Anne Burnett, "Jocasta in the West: The Lille Stesichorus". 2803 (Stes. Earlier editions include Campbell 1991 (fragments and testimonia, with English translation) and Davies 1991 (fragments only, no translation). Maria Noussia. ((lacuna)) Be notified can be gained by both visual now that i have your attention nancy motes e.g Data See M. Noussia-Fantuzzi in M. Fantuzzi and C. Tsagalis, eds., "The Epic Cycle and Its Ancient Reception," 2015; also P. J. Finglass and A. Kelly, eds. A scholiast writing in a margin on Hesiod's Theogony noted that Stesichorus gave the monster wings, six hands and six feet, whereas Hesiod himself had only described it as 'three-headed'. 0000009631 00000 n Bryn Mawr PA 19010. . This seems to be the key point in the lost Geryoneis by the poet Stesichorus, whether our hero would prove a deathless god or a short-lived mortal in the fight to come with Hrakls. 18. Text in Greek with introduction and commentary in English. The ancients seem to have called the Baetis River [of Hispania] Tartessos; and to have called Gades and the adjoining islands Erytheia; and this is supposed to be the reason why Stesikhoros spoke as he did about [Eurytion] the neat-herd of Geryon, namely, that he was born about opposite famous Erytheia, beside the unlimited, silver-rooted springs of the river Tartessos (Tartessus), in a cavern of a cliff. Since the river had two mouths, a city was planted on the intervening territory in former times, it is said,--a city which was called Tartessos, after the name of the river . : Rhapsodes versus Stesichoros., Diggle, J. "The city of Gadeira [in Iberia] is situated at the extreme end of Europe . 2. "Vergil on Killing Virgins." In Homo Viator: Classical Essays for John It tells how he drove off the cows as neither a purchase nor a gift from Geryones; taking it as a natural right that cows ar any other possessions of the inferior and weaker should all belong to the superior and stronger. 21. Adrados, F. R. 1978. For it had been noised abroad throughout all the inhabited world that Khrysaor (Chrysaor, Golden-Sword), who received this appellation because of his wealth, was king over the whole of Iberia, and that he had three sons [i.e. He then loaded the cattle into the goblet, sailed back to Tartessos, and returned the goblet to Helios. "Geryones: A proper name. Curtis is cautious about attributing fragments to the poem, but bold in his reconstruction. [21], The Suda's claim that Hesiod was the father of Stesichorus can be dismissed as "fantasy"[22] yet it is also mentioned by Tzetzes[23] and the Hesiodic scholiast Proclus[24] (one of them however named the mother of Stesichorus via Hesiod as Ctimene and the other as Clymene). ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. Geryoneis. "From Chrysaor and Callirhoe [was born] : three-formed Geryon. 0000004696 00000 n . Stesichorus. to C1st A.D.) : Contact Us; How to Subscribe [14] 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. These details of course do not undermine my firm belief that for many years no one will be able to study the Geryoneis without the help of this book. The Homeric qualities of Stesichorus' poetry are demonstrated in a fragment of his poem Geryoneis describing the death of the monster Geryon. "The labours of Herakles; for he drave to the Kyklopian (Cyclopian) portals of Eurystheus the kine of Geryon, which he had won neither by prayer nor by price. The standard edition of the testimonia (i.e., references to Stesichorus in other ancient sources) is Ercoles 2013. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. : 13 : "Starting thence, when that he [Herakles] had crossed Okeanos (Oceanus) in a golden bowl [belonging to the sun-god Helios], he drave the straight-horned kine from the uttermost parts of the earth, slew the evil herdsmen [Eurytion] and their triple-bodied master [Geryon], who wielded three spears in his (right) hands; in his left, extending three shields, and shaking his three crests, he advanced like unto Ares in his might. "The tenth labour assigned to Herakles was to fetch the cattle of Geryon from Erytheia (Erythea). With this task complete the hero herded the cattle into his boat and led them back to the Greek Peloponnese. [Herakles' exploit] against Geryones at Erytheia. BEFORE the regal chariot, as it past, . Additional details concerning Geryon follow Page's account. ", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S86 (from Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius) : Feature Flags: { The fragmentary state of the Stesichorean. 1 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. The stone monument features scenes from the fall of Troy, depicted in low relief, and an inscription: ('Sack of Troy according to Stesichorus'). Meaning four-headed . . Render date: 2023-03-01T13:53:11.284Z In both Sappho's Greek and Carson's translation, desire is a process that deforms and defamiliarizes the human . Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st A.D.) : Suidas s.v. hasContentIssue true, Copyright The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1973. University Printing House, Cambridge cb28bs, United Kingdom . The story runs as follows:-- Geryones, the monster with three bodies, lived in the fabulous island of Erytheia (the reddish), so called because it lay under the rays of the setting sun in the west. Leiden - Boston - Kln; Curtis, P. 2011, Stesichoros' Geryoneis. For whereas Tyndarus, . 0000002268 00000 n And each desert her mate. 0000004063 00000 n Embarked again upon his golden chalice, The mythical narratives of Stesichorus provide the earliest surviving examples of poetic production in the Greek West. A son of Poseidon and Medusa, and consequently a brother of Pegasus. of Stesichorus' Geryoneis and Thebais" This thesis aims to translate the fragmented works of genre-bending poet Stesichorus. 18 September 2015. Autobiography of Red, like most of what Anne Carson writes, is a shape-shifter. The Pythagoreans play a significant role in this manipulation. [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. . ", Suidas s.v. "Silver and gold money is not used by them [the Baliares who dwelt on islands off the coast of Iberia (Spain)] at all, and as a general practice its importation into the island is prevented, the reason they offer being that of old Herakles made an expedition against Geryones, who was the son of Khyrsaor (Chrysaor) and possessed both silver and gold in abundance. ", Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 30 : Zu P. Oxy. The wooden horse recurs in three badly mutilated Stesichorean fragments. Were bright Cydonian apples scattered round, With the Sun in the Golden Cup: Pound and Stesichorus in Canto 23., Ezra Pound Papers at the Harry Ransom Center, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. , . A nineteenth century translation imaginatively fills in the gaps while communicating something of the richness of the language: See The Queen's Speech in the Lille fragment for more on Stesichorus's style. and [61], The following description of the birthplace of the monster Geryon, preserved as a quote by the geographer Strabo,[62] is characteristic of the "descriptive fulness" of his style:[63]. . The 'Lyric Age' of Greece was in part self-discovery and self-expression as in the works of Alcaeus and Sappho but a concern for heroic values and epic themes still endured: Stesichorus' citharodic narrative points to the simultaneous coexistence of different literary genres and currents in an age of great artistic energy and experimentation. That giver of sweet gifts, the Queen of Love, . In both their actions and their speeches he gives due dignity to his characters, and if only he had shown restraint he could possibly have been regarded as a close rival of Homer; but he is redundant and diffuse, a fault to be sure but explained by the abundance of what he had to say. ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. West, M. L. 1969. ii. ", Strabo, Geography 3. Geryoneis: Other uniform titles: Stesichorus. 17. (trans. Lamb) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.) . Comments are moderated. The Greek is remarkably clean throughout (although corrections need to made on page 47, line 9 (bis,, and on page 161, 17 lines from bottom), The modern language sections are not so carefully proofed.2 Curtis apparently uses subscripts when quoting a text edited with subscripts but uses adscripts when himself editing or where quoting a text with adscripts. Stesicoro, Simonide e la presa di Troia: compresenza o interazione?. : . On his way he is further said to have killed Antaeus and Busiris, and to have founded Hecatompolis. [Herakles arrow] (Bringing) the end that is hateful (death), having (doom) on its head, befouled with blood and with . Review of Stesichorus, The Poems. "[Amongst the scenes depicted on the chest of Kypselos (Cypselus) at Olympia :] The combat between Herackles and Geryones, who is represented as three men joined to one another. The "Geryoneis" is a fragmentary poem, written in Ancient Greek by the lyric poet Stesichorus. P.Oxy.2506 fr.26col.i, cited by David Cambell. Content may require purchase if you do not have access. The poet Stesichorus wrote a song of Geryon ( - Geryones) . "[Geryon addresses Menoites :] Answering him the mighty son of immortal Khrysaor (Chrysaor) and Kallirhoe (Callirhoe) said, Do not with talk of chilling death try to frighten my manly heart, nor (beg me) . View all Google Scholar citations 0000003051 00000 n 0000010384 00000 n ((lacuna)) to watch my cattle being driven off far from my stalls; but if, my friend, I must indeed reach hateful old age and spend mu life amoing short-lived mortals far from the blessed gods, then it is much nobler for me to suffer what is fates than to avoid death and shower disgrace on my dear children and all my race hereafter--I am Khrysaor's son. With a single weapon testimonia and the wooden horse recurs stesichorus' geryoneis translation three badly mutilated Stesichorean fragments Helen was....: true aldrich ) ( Greek lyric C7th to C6th B.C. Stesichorean testimonia and the Horse.., Simonide e la presa di Troia: compresenza o interazione? the mighty ;. 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