550s BC Deaths - 555 BC Deaths, 556 BC Deaths, 558 BC Deaths, 559 BC Deaths, Solon, Neriglissar, Stesichorus, Cambyses I, Labashi-Marduk (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Stesichorus (Ancient Greek:, English translation: "he who sets up the chorus, choirmaster ") (640 - 555 Be was a Greek lyric poet from Himera in Sicily, one of the nine lyric poets esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of study.Life and chronology Possible chronologic disputes aside, there is a note in the Harvard University Press ' Loeb Classical Library 's Introduction to Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica (pp. xvi) concerning the story of the death of Hesiod, in which briefly it is told that after Hesiod won a tripod for the contest in song at Chalcis, he "went to Delphi and there was warned that the 'issue of death should overtake him in the fair grove of Nemean Zeus'." Avoiding therefore Nemea on the Isthmus of Corinth, to which he supposed the oracle to refer, Hesiod retired to Oenoe in Locris where he was entertained by Amphiphanes and Ganyctor, sons of a certain Phegeus ." This place also being sacred to Nemean Zeus, the poet suspected of seducing their sister was murdered. The Note reads: "She is said to have given birth to the lyrist Stesichorus." Not wishing to late-date Hesiod, there could still be descendant substance to the note. Or "he is "The Son of Hesiod" because he drew heavily on the Hesiodic poems particularly "The Catalogue." According to the Suda he lived from the 37th Olympiad to the 56th and had two brothers: Mamertinus and Helianax. Works Stesichorus was included in a list of nine respected lyric poets by the scholars of ancient Alexandria. Like the other eight lyric poets, much of his work is lost, and he is known today through fragments and through descriptions and quotations in later works. A very large fragment was found in mummy cartonnage in Lille in the 1960s, and forms the core of the known corpus.Several poe...