Stesichorus biography of michaels

Stesichorus

Several poems dealing with the Trojan War are attributed to him, as well as an Oresteia believed to have influenced Aeschylus in his own Oresteia.

Stesichorus biography of michaels

Fragments also survive from a poem about the monster Geryon, defeated by Herakles in his bid to steal Geryon's red cattle as his Tenth Labor.

Stesichorus is also famous for his palinode and the legend surrounding it: Allegedly, Stesichorus wrote a poem about Helen and the traditional story of the Trojan War, and was immediately blinded.

He then composed a palinode to retract his statements about Helen, and his sight was miraculously restored; afterwards he promoted the idea that the real Helen remained in Egypt, while an illusion created by her father Zeus continued on to Troy.

Plato in his Phaedrus preserved Stesichorus' palinode, which reads:

"That story is not true.

You [Helen] never sailed in the benched ships.

You never went to the city of Troy."

When the people of Himera had made Phalaris