", Pausanias, Description of Greece 4. About the author (2021) EWEN BOWIE is the Emeritus E. P. Warren Praelector and Fellow in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford. Stesichorus. ", Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. 4 : Strabo, Geography 3. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. Schol.A.Pind.10.19, cited by David Campbell. 5. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd A.D.) : Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. [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. Embarked again upon his golden chalice, ", Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. Campbell, Vol. : : based on Curtis' autopsy, is . Maria Noussia. ((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. ", Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5. Stesichorus: Poet and Thinker., . Sleeps the dim Night in solitary valleys, Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) 0000004063 00000 n 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:[47]. 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. 9 : [ (S103.2), and describes how the Danaans leapt eagerly from the [wooden] horse (S105.9): ( ?) In = Athenaei Naucratitae Deipnosophistarum. 21-44), discute a 2803 (Stesichoros)., . 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!"). 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. 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. Stesichorus's famous "palinode," a retraction or an apology for offending Helen and incurring her wrath, is at the center of H.D.'s epic text. 0000003191 00000 n ((lacuna)) hateful . His gory heads were cast in dust, dashed down by that resistless club. And myrtle, leaves, in showers of fragrance cast, 100 ff (trans. They say that he was blinded for writing abuse of Helen and recovered his sight after writing an encomium of Helen, the Palinode, as the result of a dream. "Theolytos (Theolytus) says that he [Herakles] sailed across the sea in a cauldron [i.e. On his way he is further said to have killed Antaeus and Busiris, and to have founded Hecatompolis. XII 424425); or as . : Aeschylus, Fragment 37 Heracleidae (from Scholiast on Aristeides) : Plato, Gorgias 484b (trans. 7 - 8 (trans. Its contribution to the interpretation of the Geryones is very great, and to the understanding of Stesichorus more generally is unrivalled. But claims for a renewed and rapidly growing interest in translation and translation practices can be substantiated by the popularity of works such as Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red and Red Doc> (both loosely based on the ancient Greek lyric poet Stesichorus' poem 'Geryoneis'), the appearance of translation projects with visible . The hero reached the island by sailing across the Okeanos in a golden cup-boat borrowed from the sun-god Helios. Hammond, N. G. L. 1 (trans. ", Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. Cambridge. 0000002579 00000 n - (Il. At once the story spread among the multitude that it was the corpse of Geryon, the son of Khrysaor (Chrysaor), and that the seat also was his. Xvi + 201, Pls. [40] His possible exile from Arcadia is attributed by one modern scholar to rivalry between Tegea and Sparta. It was called Erythea, because the original ancestors of the Carthaginians, the Tyrians, were said to have come from the Red Sea. 5. And finding there the sons of Khrysaor (Chrysaor) encamped at some distance from one another with three great armies, he challenged each of the leaders to single combat and slew them all, and then after subduing Iberia he drove off the celebrated herds of cattle. The vocal debate of the Trojans, sitting in the open, The Odyssean narrative rests on an intriguing use of elements. "Geryones: A proper name. The poet Stesichorus wrote a song of Geryon ( - Geryones) . startxref 2803 (Stesichoros)., Giangiulio, M. 1991. And when I criticized the account and pointed out to them that Geryon is at Gadeira, where there is, not his tomb, but a tree showing different shapes, the guides of the Lydians related the true story, that the corpse is that of Hyllos (Hyllus), a son of Gaia (Gaea, Earth), from whom the river is named. . "In his mind he distinguished [Herakles who was deliberating on whether to kill Geryon by stealth or in an open fight,] . 155 36 [1.2] KHRYSAOR (Ibycus Frag 282A, Diodorus Siculus 4.17.1). 184 (trans. The Cantos Project by Roxana Predais licensed under a. 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 . As on his journey Heracles was annoyed by the heat of the sun, he shot at Helios, who so much admired his boldness, that he presented him with a golden cup or boat, in which he sailed across the ocean to Erytheia. . Now, furthermore, I have just finished writing the translation with a commentary of Stesichorus' fragments, which will be published in a book about all the Greek lyric poets (except Pindar, Simonides, Bacchylides: Bompiani editore). 19. Gryonis. "Herakles, driving the cattle of Geryones, came to this land [Skythia (Scythia)], which was then desolate, but is now inhabited by the Skythians. Cased, 95, US$133. Stesichorus Redivivus., . Download. The Poems. : Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4. However, Stesichorus did more than recast the form of epic poetry works such as the Palinode were also a recasting of epic material: in that version of the Trojan War, the combatants fought over a phantom Helen while the real Helen either stayed home or went to Egypt (see a summary below). Sign In; Create Profile More. 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. . 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). Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary by M. Davies and P.J. Jasper Griffin, "Greek Myth and Hesiod", J. Boardman, J. Griffin and O. Murray (eds), Richard Lattimore translation, "Hesiod" Intro. "Just so you all know Americas Sweetheart is a B-H! 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. VAIN it is for those to weep The result is a useful contribution to the growing literature on Stesichorus; the newly edited and : Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. Zum Stesichorus Redivivus., . . Appendices provide texts and translations of Greek and Latin testimonia, followed by comparative material, texts (in Greek, Sanskrit and Iranian) again with translations. 0000023416 00000 n Liebregts, Peter. The Homeric qualities of Stesichorus' poetry are demonstrated in a fragment of his poem Geryoneis describing the death of the monster Geryon. Robbins, E. 1997. [32], 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. [34] 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 . . 4 - 5 (trans. Geryoneis. 2003. Significantly, many of these creatures are among the . 191-92. 1 (trans. According to another tradition known to Cicero, Stesichorus was the grandson of Hesiod[25] yet even this verges on anachronism since Hesiod was composing verses around 700 BC. Homeric Influence in Stesichorus Nostoi.. 155 0 obj <> endobj : The wooden horse recurs in three badly mutilated Stesichorean fragments. Stesichorus (Ancient Greek: , circa 640 - 555 BCE) was the first great poet of the Greek West. 18. Image . Argentorati (Strassburg) : ex typographia Societatis Bipontinae. [33] 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. 0000002225 00000 n And when they make cheese they first mix the milk with a large amount of water, on account of the fat in the milk. 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. . Sandys) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) Wroth with the daughters for the fathers sake, Where dwell his mother and his consort mild, Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : The ancient poet Stesichorus is said to have been born there. : Rhapsodes versus Stesichoros., Diggle, J. Like gems, rich rows of purple violet. 1804. Your email address will not be published. Ed. 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. Be notified can be gained by both visual now that i have your attention nancy motes e.g Data Menoetes, who was there tending the cattle of Haides, reported these events to Geryon, who overtook Herakles by the Athemos (Athemus) river as he was leading away the cattle. Day-Lewis) (Roman epic C1st B.C.) 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. [20] Eusebius dated his floruit in Olympiad 42.2 (611/10 BC) and his death in Olympiad 55.1 (560/59 BC). Public Poetry. In Gerber 1997:223252. "useRatesEcommerce": false 1 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. Being the Remains of all the Greek Lyric Poets from Eumelus to Timotheus Excepting Pindar. [Herakles arrow] (Bringing) the end that is hateful (death), having (doom) on its head, befouled with blood and with . Diodorus makes Heracles collect a large fleet in Crete, to sail against Chrysaor, the wealthy king of Iberia, and his three sons. There were two of them, and they grew upon the mound raised over Geryon: they were a cross between the pitch tree and the pine, and formed a third species; and blood dripped from their bark, just as gold does from the Heliad poplar. Curtis provides us with an edition and translation of and a commentary upon the fragments of the Geryoneis as he reconstructs it. 0000002424 00000 n , . <> . 4 : [15] Aristotle quoted a speech the poet is supposed to have made to the people of Himera warning them against the tyrannical ambitions of Phalaris. ((lacuna)) ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 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. "Myungho!" he crows, as though they're long-lost friends finally finding each other again, instead of two friends-of-friends at the same barbecue restaurant. 13 : The Epic Cycle and Fragments. In Foley 2005:344352. The Trojans haul onto the acropolis the horse that was heavy inside, (357). Day-Lewis) (Roman epic C1st B.C.) ", Pindar, Fragment 169 (trans. "Threefold Geryon by one hand [Heracles'] overcome. [5], Stesichorus also exercised an important influence on the representation of myth in 6th century art,[6] and on the development of Athenian dramatic poetry.[7]. . I emphasize the distance between words and lines created by the ripped papyri, as well as the distance between the original text and the modern reader. Here consistency would be a virtue. Adrados, F. R. 1978. 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. 0000040107 00000 n The meaning of the name is, as in the case of the masculine equivalent Antigonus, "worthy of one's parents" or "in place of one's . Leiden - Boston - Kln; Curtis, P. 2011, Stesichoros' Geryoneis. Heracles was commanded by Eurystheus to fetch those oxen of Geryones. Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. Read Article Now Download Free PDF. In this paper I considered two fragments of the Geryoneis of Stesichorus and its descriptions of the Western . 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. It remains unclear whether he models his poem on Arctinus. Eryx too, who was reigning in Sikelia (Sicily), plainly had so violent a desire for the cattle from Erytheia that he wrestled with Herakles, staking his kingdom on the match against these cattle. Stesichorus at Bovillae?. 19. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. 14 vols., 1801-1807. Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary by M. Davies and P.J. For example: Abbreviations, line 21, read Altertumswissenschaft; page 28, note 115, line 6, read roll; page 58, last line, read here it looks; page 122, line 4, omit either a or the; page 129, line 21, read emphasis; page 168, 4 lines from bottom, read in the archonship.. "The Bulls of Khaonia (Chaonia) which, the inhabitants of Thesprotia and Epeiros (Epirus) call fatted, trace their descent from the oxen of Geryones. 8. 17. Fragment from Geryoneis.In = Athenaei Naucratitae Deipnosophistarum.Edited and translated into Latin by Johannes Schweighuser. Greco-Roman Llria Floor Mosaic C3rd A.D. A complete bibliography of the translations quoted on this page. Maingon, A. D. 1978. Further, the animals choke to death within fifty days, unless you open a vein and bleed them. Propuestas para una nueva edicin y interpretatin de Estescoro., Auger, D. 1976. [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. Geryoneis. [17] According to Lucian, the poet lived to 85 years of age. "Stesichoros' Geryoneis and its folk-tale origins . 0000003331 00000 n Showerman) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. . The grass upon which they graze is dry, but it makes them very fat; and it is from this fact, it is inferred, that the myth about the cattle of Geryon has been fabricated. Online purchasing will be unavailable between 18:00 BST and 19:00 BST on Tuesday 20th September due to essential maintenance work. 2803 (Stes. 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. 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. They fought, and Herakles slew Geryon with an arrow. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. This text is from a fragmentary scrap of papyrus. 1985. There is an English translation in the Everyman Classics series (1987) by Faulkes . The apparatus and commentary are very full. Pp. ", Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. Quintilian[54], 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",[55] and Longinus puts him in select company with Herodotus, Archilochus and Plato as the 'most Homeric' of authors.[56]. . And a torrent they called the river Okeanos (Oceanus), and they said that men ploughing met with the horns of cattle, for the story is that Geryon reared excellent cows. 11 (trans. ", Hesiod, Theogony 287 ff. Ewen Bowie about Helen to one involving an eidolon, andfinally notes the implications of such a claim by a poet for the use of the singing 'I'by a chorus. 3 : Athenaeus 4.172de, cited by David Campbell, "Ooops! 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. Finglass (Cambridge 2014) Marco Ercoles. Though we should take into account that these fragments are a loose and creative translation of Stesichoros . . Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) : ). no captulo "Stesichorus and Homer" (pp. Review of Stesichorus, The Poems. 1 : [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). In spite of this, his familiarity with old legends is well-attested as he rehandles themes preserved in the non-canonical cyclic poems and the canonical or Panhellenic Homeric epics. 190 0 obj<>stream For all the above reasons, our task of mapping the provenace of the themes and poetic contribution of Stesichorus is hampered. Greek Lyric III) (Greek lyric C6th B.C.) of Stesichorus' Geryoneis and Thebais" This thesis aims to translate the fragmented works of genre-bending poet Stesichorus. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) W. Baumann and W. Pratt. Charles Segal, 'Archaic Choral Lyric' P. Easterling and E. Kenney (eds). 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. 0000041002 00000 n 3 vols. 0000020677 00000 n "Many varieties of monsters can be found stabled here at the doors [of Hades] . 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. . 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 . Its contribution to the interpretation of the Geryoneis is His name was originally Teisias, according to the Byzantine lexicon Suda (10th century ad). Stesichorus. He died in the 56th Olympiad (556/2 BC). He acts a prominent part in the stories of Heracles. Greek Lyric III) (Greek lyric C6th B.C.) Pearse) (summary from Photius, Myriobiblon 190) (Greek mythographer C1st to C2nd A.D.) : Earlier editions include Campbell 1991 (fragments and testimonia, with English translation) and Davies 1991 (fragments only, no translation). ((lacuna)); it seemed to him to be much better . 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). 2 : ", Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Bk2 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Parthenius, Love Romances 30 (trans. "[Amongst the scenes depicted on the throne of Apollon at Amyklai (Amyclae) :] Herakles is driving off Geryon's cows. Stesichorus was born in Metauros (modern Gioia Tauro) in Calabria, Southern Italy[8][9][10][11][12] c. 630 BC and died in Katane (modern Catania) in Sicily in 555 BC. Melville) (Roman poet C1st B.C. A more literal-minded later generation of Greeks associated the region with Tartessos in southern Iberia. Abstract Most of Herakles' accomplishments as portrayed in Hesiod's Theogony concern his defeat of various monstrous entities, such as the Nemean lion. ", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S87 (from Scholiast on Hesiod's Theogony) : "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]. 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. [1.2] GERYON (Stesichorus Geryoneis, Ibycus Frag 282A, Apollodorus 2.42, Hyginus Pref & Fabulae 15, Diodorus Siculus 4.17.1) ENCYCLOPEDIA. The titles of more than half of them are recorded by ancient sources:[74], Some poems were wrongly attributed to Stesichorus by ancient sources, including bucolic poems and some love songs such as Calyce and Rhadine. Were bright Cydonian apples scattered round, 0000002871 00000 n "Stesichorus", by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870. Finglass (Cambridge 2014) . Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. The admonition of the second speaker, in particular, formulated in the first person plural, let us not dishonor the horse treating it in a shameful manner, suggests that this man is not Sinon, as in Tryphiodorus ( , 301303), but rather a Trojan, although hardly Laocoon. ", Ibycus, Fragment 282A (trans. Content may require purchase if you do not have access. "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. Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S86 (from Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius) : "Stesikhoros in his Geryoneis calls an island in the Atlantic sea Sarpedonian." Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S87 (from Scholiast on Hesiod's Theogony) : "Geryon is son of Kallirrhoe (Callirhoe), daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus), and Khrysaor (Chrysaor). . XXXII 2617. [18] Hieronymus declared that his poems became sweeter and more swan-like as he approached death,[19] and Cicero knew of a bronzed statue representing him as a bent old man holding a book. 0000001016 00000 n "The tradition is that this [Nora] was the first city in the island [of Sardinia], and they say that Norax [who founded it] was a son of Erytheia, the daughter of Geryones, with Hermes for a father. to C1st A.D.) : Ovid, Heroides 9. 1982. "Stesikhoros says that Helios (the Sun) sailed across Okeanos (Oceanus) in a cup and that Herakles also crosssed over in it when travelling to get Geryon's cattle. BUT now the sun, great Hyperions child, Conybeare) (Greek biography C1st to C2nd A.D.) : ((lacuna)) concerning my cattle." Stesichorus: The Sack of Troy and the Wooden Horse., Pardini, A. The fragmentary state of the Stesichorean. 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. He possessed a fabulous herd of cattle whose coats were stained red by the light of the sunset. They also said that Herakles from his sojourning with Omphale called his son Hyllos after the river. Transcription of the original and English translation by Peter Liebregts. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.) : 3 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. : In Greek mythology, Antigone (/ n t n i / ann-TIG--nee; Ancient Greek: ) is the daughter of Oedipus and either his mother Jocasta or, in another variation of the myth, Euryganeia.She is a sister of Polynices, Eteocles, and Ismene. "[Heracles] told of the deeds . Powerful Geryon, son of the giant Chrysaor and the Oceanid Callirhoe, was a monster with three heads and three bodies who lived at the far edge of the world.With the help of his herdsman Eurytion and his two-headed guard dog Orthus, he kept a much-envied herd of cattleso envied, in fact, that the hero Heracles was commanded to steal it as the tenth of his Twelve Labors. xb```f``-a`e``lb`@ 6v,`-f0le`eK.XPmYJ8 G Continue Reading. The Irish Factor. There seem to be intrusive apostrophes in the first word of line 3 of fragment 1 (page 73) and in the third word of line 10, column 2, of fragment 12 (page 84). "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. . . In a context studded with sacrificial terms, the twin eagles-Atreidae perform a corrupt sacrifice, be it of the hare and her fetuses before their birth ( ), and/or of a human child (i.e. La leggenda di Epeo.. . for this article. Geryones lived west of the Pontos (Pontus), settled in the island called by the Greeks Erytheia, on the shore of Okeanos (Oceanus) near Gadeira, outside the pillars of Herakles. 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]. It is common knowledge that Stesichorus vita has been modified so as to serve the particular interests of various ethnic and religious groups; hence his biographical data are the result of bias; the presumed names and the occupation of the members of Stesichorus family testify to the popularity of such a policy within certain circles. 39 ISBN: 9789004214200 9004214208 9789004207677 9004207678: Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and indexes. : Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. . pp. ((lacuna)) Obey me, my child.", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S13 (from Papyri) : to C1st A.D.) : Virgil, Aeneid 6. : Herodotus, Histories 4. (trans. After that, Alexa passed out. ISBN: 978-90-04-20767-7. . ] [] []. 2018, Gnomon XC. 2506 e 2619)., Lerza, P. 1981. 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