Tomus Quartus (Liber XI: XXXVIII). 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.. . It follows the standard format with an introduction, text with translation and apparatus , and a commentary. La Genire, J. de. Text in Greek with introduction and commentary in English. "But what really caused me surprise is this. 100 ff (trans. 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). IN STESICHORUS' GERYONEIS Christina Franzen The fragmentary Geryoneis is based on Herakles' tenth labor, which en . Some of the most important of . Translation into Latin by Johannes Schweighuser. The goddess caused them straight, Athenian Red Figure Vase Painting C6th B.C. Geryones : Homeric Influence in Stesichorus Nostoi.. . With Mans life ends all the story (Apollod. [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 . Pearse) (summary from Photius, Myriobiblon 190) (Greek mythographer C1st to C2nd A.D.) : Oppian, Cynegetica 2. "Vergil on Killing Virgins." In Homo Viator: Classical Essays for John 0000048787 00000 n [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. Further Eratosthenes says that the country adjoining Kalpe (Calpe) is called Tartessis, and that Erytheia is called Blest Island (Nesos Eudaimos). "[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. There is inconsistency between the information in text, apparatus and commentary on fragment 6, line 1: the printed text is simply a dotted mu, the apparatus conservative, but the commentary speculative (pages 77 and 115). . 87 ff (trans. . Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. A Study of Ezra PoundsThe Cantos. Liebregts, Peter. On his way he is further said to have killed Antaeus and Busiris, and to have founded Hecatompolis. 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 . 13 Homeric Iliad Samuel Butler's translation, revised by Timothy Power, Gregory Nagy, Soo-Young Kim, and Kelly McCray. Fragment fromGeryoneis. 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. 184 (trans. Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. 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. . 106 - 109 (trans. Zum Stesichorus Redivivus., . 13 : As well as providing a detailed analysis on the poet's language and style, the song is considered in its wider religious context. Stesichorus and the Epic Tradition. PhD diss., University of British Columbia. Tradition und Innovation: zu Stesichorus Umgang mit dem Mythos., Page, D. 1973. Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) Mair) (Greek poet C3rd A.D.) : Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Greek Lyric III) (Greek lyric C6th B.C.) ", Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. Lamb) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.) ", Eumelus of Corinth or Arctinus of Miletus, Titanomachia Fragment 7 (from Athenaeus 11. 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: , , , . . 1 The present paper makes full use of a lecture entitled 'Stesichorus and the story of Geryon', addressed by Mr W. S. Barrett to a meeting of the Hellenic and Roman Societies at Oxford in September 1968. [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. Significantly, this also corresponds to the third option submitted in the, On account of its state of transmission, the lyric text is reticent as regards the number and the content of the Stesichorean alternatives. Stesichorus Redivivus., . 0000002424 00000 n This island is believed by some people to have been the home of the Geryones whose cattle were carried off by Hercules; but others hold that that was another island, lying of Lusitania, and that an island there was once called by the same name. "Geryoneis." Lyra Graeca. Sm. S 133147 Davies)., Reece, S. 1988. . 36. Download. 2. 1971b. He writes on early Greek poetry; Old Comedy; Hellenistic poetry; and the Greek literature and culture of the Roman Empire. Boardman, John "The tenth labour assigned to Herakles was to fetch the cattle of Geryon from Erytheia (Erythea). 1 (trans. 0000003051 00000 n The result is a useful contribution to the growing literature on Stesichorus; the newly edited and 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. ", Plato, Gorgias 484b (trans. 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. . And westward steered where, far oer ocean wild, May this not be the wish of the blessed gods . lo avevano colpito; tanto da gettarlo a terra." That indeed a daemonic agency could make such a Appendices provide texts and translations of Greek and Latin testimonia, followed by comparative material, texts (in Greek, Sanskrit and Iranian) again with translations. Sandys) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) Edited and translated into Latin by Johannes Schweighuser. 13 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 4. Stesichorus: Poet and Thinker., . And many a coronal, wherein were set, Son Dnem Osmanl mparatorluu'nda Esrar Ekimi, Kullanm ve Kaakl . 11 (trans. 1993. : Rhapsodes versus Stesichoros., Diggle, J. 0000020731 00000 n "[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. . Moved, with firm step, the hero son of Jove. 0000005778 00000 n 19. [31] The poet's mathematically inclined brother was named Mamertinus by the Suda but a scholiast in a commentary on Euclid named him Mamercus. Geryoneis: Other uniform titles: Stesichorus. 19. "[Amongst the images decorating the temple of Zeus at Olympia :] Above the doors of the temple is carved . Geryoneis des Stesichoros und die frhe griechische Kunst. Stesichorus' account. 21. [40] His possible exile from Arcadia is attributed by one modern scholar to rivalry between Tegea and Sparta. : Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. This book illustrates how Stesichorus reshaped Greek epic to create a remarkably innovative type of lyric poetry - a literature that was particularly expressive in its handling of motifs associated with travel, such as the voyages of heroes, their returns home, and their escapes. 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. Filottete tra Sibari e Crotone., Horsfall, N. 1979. 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. With this task complete the hero herded the cattle into his boat and led them back to the Greek Peloponnese. [Herakles arrow] (Bringing) the end that is hateful (death), having (doom) on its head, befouled with blood and with . [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. [42] Philodemus believed that the poet once stood between two armies (which two, he doesn't say) and reconciled them with a song but there is a similar story about Terpander. Stesichorus' Geryoneis and its Folk-tale Origins* - Volume 38 Issue 2. 1987. 2003. The Poems. ) either in front of the army ( ) or, I would add, before experiencing the nuptial bed and childbearing. . 1971. Pearse) (summary from Photius, Myriobiblon 190) (Greek mythographer C1st to C2nd A.D.) : Waterloo ON: Wilfrid Laurier, 1991. Online purchasing will be unavailable between 18:00 BST and 19:00 BST on Tuesday 20th September due to essential maintenance work. because silver was mined in the region] waters of the river Tartessos in the hollow of a rock.", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Frag S10 (from Papyri) : 1985. 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. 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]. , . Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek Lexicon C10th A.D.) : Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana. 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. ", Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4. ", Suidas s.v. 17. 4 - 5 (trans. CHRYSAOR (Chrusar). "[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. 5 : Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. Robbins, E. 1997. Hesiod, Theogony 979 ff. "[Herakles] killed Geryones, son of Khrysaor (Chrysaor). For he had three crests on his helmet and gave Herakles a hell of a struggle. . no captulo "Stesichorus and Homer" (pp. 1 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. Fragment from Geryoneis.In = Athenaei Naucratitae Deipnosophistarum.Edited and translated into Latin by Johannes Schweighuser. Stesichorus. 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. Download Free PDF. Charles Segal, 'Archaic Choral Lyric' P. Easterling and E. Kenney (eds). His name was originally Teisias, according to the Byzantine lexicon Suda (10th century ad). On page 145, I am not sure why Aeschylus and Pindar are mentioned as examples of 6th century poetry. For testimonium 34 the translation runs past the Latin printed. "Herakles, driving the cattle of Geryones, came to this land [Skythia (Scythia)], which was then desolate, but is now inhabited by the Skythians. Erytheia was an island, now called Gadeira [Gades], lying near Okeanos (Oceanus). Eds. W. Baumann and W. Pratt. The identity of the two Stesichorean speakers (S88 col.i and ii) escapes us, yet we may form a rough idea about their party connexions and nationality. 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. " 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. BUT now the sun, great Hyperions child, 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. ", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S14 (from Papyri) : Only a very few possibly authentic but small fragments are omitted. . The Pythagoreans play a significant role in this manipulation. Though we should take into account that these fragments are a loose and creative translation of Stesichoros . 13 : Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "He [Hephaestion] recounts that Hera who fought on the side of Geryon was wounded on her right by Herakles. 0000002268 00000 n xref Content may require purchase if you do not have access. 14 vols., 1801-1807. 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. . . 0 191-92. [email protected] Preview Stesichorus PMGF S21.1-3 (Geryoneis): A Textual Proposal. 1971a. In = Athenaei Naucratitae Deipnosophistarum. . ", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S17 (from Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae) : [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. Athenian Black Figure Vase Painting C6th B.C. [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]. Like gems, rich rows of purple violet. Denys Page 1973:138-154 gives the fragmentary Greek and pieces together a translation by overlaying the fragments with the account in Bibliotheke. 39 Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek Lexicon C10th A.D.) : Gaselee) (Greek poet C1st B.C.) xb```f``-a`e``lb`@ 6v,`-f0le`eK.XPmYJ8 G That giver of sweet gifts, the Queen of Love, 99-105. "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. ", Herodotus, Histories 4. story Mito y Perfomance. He owned crimson-colored cattle, which were herded by Eurytion and protected by Orthos (Orthus), the hound with two heads born of Ekhidna (Echidna) and Typhon. It was because of these reports that Eurystheus, thinking any expedition against these men would be too difficult to succeed, had assigned the Herakles the Labour just described. ", Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Wroth with the daughters for the fathers sake, Hostname: page-component-7f44ffd566-kw2xh 190 0 obj<>stream 2803 (Stes. P.Oxy.2506 fr.26col.i, cited by David Cambell. by the limitless silver-rooted [i.e. 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. Wandering Poets, Archaic Style. In Hunter and Rutherford 2009:105135. 0000041115 00000 n "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. 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 . Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Parthenius, Love Romances 30 (trans. . ISBN: 9789004214200 9004214208 9789004207677 9004207678: Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and indexes. We ask that comments be substantive in content and civil in tone and those that do not adhere to these guidelines will not be published. Finglass (Cambridge 2014) Marco Ercoles. Campbell, Vol. Sulla natura di P.Oxy. : Stesichorus, Geryoneis Frag S10 (from Papyri). It may be connected with the ancient Greek word g (earth) or gry (singing). . Alchetron 1988. Notes on Greek Lyric Poets., Fhrer, R. 1970. ). 0000048844 00000 n "Geryon is son of Kallirrhoe (Callirhoe), daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus), and Khrysaor (Chrysaor). "[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. 3 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. As Herakles proceeded through Europe to these cattle, he killed many wild animals, paid a visit to Libya, and went on to Tartessos (Tartessus) where he set up two steles opposite each other at the borders of Europe and Libya, as commemorative markers of his trip. On the frontiers of Libya and Europe he erected two pillars (Calpe and Abyla) on the two sides of the straits of Gibraltar, which were hence called the pillars of Heracles. Cased, 95, US$133. Boulei diamachesthai Geruoni tetraptiloi (trans. "Geryones: A proper name. L32ndaYtQKd"\>Nl>gRP+D0d.QY0=4{Q-`e3Yf/. ], Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S12 (from Papyri) : More light is thrown on the poetic art of Stesichorus by the papyrus-text of his Geryones than by all his other fragments together. . Greco-Roman Llria Floor Mosaic C3rd A.D. A complete bibliography of the translations quoted on this page. "[Depicted on the shield of Herakles' grandson Eurypylos :] There lay the bulk of giant Geryon dead mid his kine. Schol.Ap.Rhod.4.825-31, cited by David Campbell. 0000023380 00000 n 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. He there slew Eurytion, his dog, and Geryones, and sailed with his booty to Tartessus, where he returned the golden cup (boat) to Helios. The Sun, Hyperions child, went down into the cupof gold, so that he might cross over the oceanand reach the depths of holy, dark, nightand his mother and wedded wifeand dear children; while he,Zeus son [=Heracles], wentinto the grove,shady with its laurels. Schol.A.Pind.10.19, cited by David Campbell. ", Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. Stesichorus and his Poetry. PhD diss., University of Chicago. 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). 1982. There is also discussion interesting for its own sake, as for example on the use of prepositional dialectical forms (page 132). "It seems the man of those days made it their business to amass wealth of this kind, herds of horses and cattle, if it is the case that . : Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4. : [N.B. 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. "From Chrysaor and Callirhoe [was born] : three-formed Geryon. 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. 7 - 8 (trans. ((lacuna)) for if I am by birth immortal and ageless, so that I shall share in life on Olympos, then it is better (to endure) the reproaches . Related Papers. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.) : Your email address will not be published. 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 . to C1st A.D.) : Curtis offers the first commentary on Stesichorus' Geryoneis. . 9 : Conybeare) (Greek biography C1st to C2nd A.D.) : Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Bk2 (trans. Bryn Mawr PA 19010. 18. ", Hesiod, Theogony 287 ff. Budelmann 2018 contains some of the Geryoneis fragments with a commentary. Paul Curtis here gives us a new edition of the fragments of the Geryoneis of Stesi-chorus, with English translation and detailed commentary. Gades, now Cadiz] and the nearby island Erytheia. 5. 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. . Then, when Helios (the Sun) made him hot as he proceeded, he aimed his bow at the god and stretched it; Helios was so surprised at his daring that he gave him a golden goblet, in which he crossed Okeanos. There he encountered and slew the cattle-herder Eurytion, the two-headed guard dog Orthros (Orthus), and finally three-bodied Geryon himself. : Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 0000003191 00000 n [1.2] GERYON (Stesichorus Geryoneis, Ibycus Frag 282A, Apollodorus 2.42, Hyginus Pref & Fabulae 15, Diodorus Siculus 4.17.1) ENCYCLOPEDIA. Render date: 2023-03-01T13:53:11.284Z View all Google Scholar citations The hero reached the island by sailing across the Okeanos in a golden cup-boat borrowed from the sun-god Helios. His poems are in the Doric dialect and in 26 books. He was called Stesichorus because he was the first to establish (stesai) a chorus of singers to the cithara; his name was originally Tisias. [1.2] KHRYSAOR (Ibycus Frag 282A, Diodorus Siculus 4.17.1). 0000009631 00000 n Whilst onward through the laurel-shaded grove, ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 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. Public Poetry. In Gerber 1997:223252. ", Virgil, Aeneid 6. Aristophanes [writes] : do you want to do battle with a four-winged Geryones?. . 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. See also: Stesichorus. They say that the latter [Herakles of Thebes] penetrated as far as the neighbouring city of Erytheia, on which occasion he took captive Geryon and his cows; and they say that in his devotion to wisdom he traversed the whole earth to its limits . 0000048716 00000 n "Theolytos (Theolytus) says that he [Herakles] sailed across the sea in a cauldron [i.e. 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. Homer provides a good start. We discern two opposing views at best, although we cannot specify the literary sources on which our poet draws. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) 2. ii. For Geryones, being three-headed, gave Herakles one hell of a struggle. Thrice, thrice, their nuptial bonds to break, . "Threefold Geryon by one hand [Heracles'] overcome. His father's name Khrysaor ("Golden Sword") was an appellation of the constellation Orion and most of Herakles other labours are connected with star groups. The infernal nuances of the horse, which oscillates between life and death, are subtly hinted at in the, A second intriguing element is the Odyssean womb imagery, alluded to by words suggesting cavity. There is an English translation in the Everyman Classics series (1987) by Faulkes . A lengthy Introduction presents virtually all aspects of the author and work: biography of Stesichorus, . Tsitsibakou-Vasalos, E. 1985. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd A.D.) : 0000002579 00000 n Further, the animals choke to death within fifty days, unless you open a vein and bleed them. Review of Stesichorus, The Poems. "And seeing him [Herakles] coming she [Kallirhoe (Callirhoe)] addressed him [her son Geryon] : Strength wins victory . Bowra, C. M. 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