from Stesichorus?' 2 Wilamowitz made a more general point, saying 'I have myself long shared the belief that Stesichorus, alone of all the lyric poets, had a significant influence on the development of heroic myth'. 3 And that influence will have been mediated mainly through tragedy. Indeed, Wilamowitz elsewhere remarked that 'tragedy cast a shadow over all narrative lyric', 4 which is another way of asserting the close connexion between these two genres: so close (in his view) that the popularity of tragedy led to the relative neglect of the lyric poetry which had had such a powerful influence on it. Similar views about the impressive legacy of Stesichorus 5 have been expressed since the arrival of the papyri, published between 1956 and 1990, that have yielded so many new fragments of his works. 6 Stephanopoulos refers to his 'great influence on tragedy'; 7 Haslam remarks that 'his importance for tragedy, both in its nascent and in its developed stages, is great and multifarious'. 8 For 2 Mayer 1883, 4: 'quantulum relinquitur de Orestiae nobilissimae trilogiae argumento, dempto exemplo Stesichoreo?' 3 Wilamowitz 1913, 241: 'Ich habe selbst den Glauben lange geteilt, dass Stesichoros, allein von allen Lyrikern, einen bedeutenden Einfluss auf die Ausbildung der Heldensage gehabt hatte.' 4 Wilamowitz 1900, 12: 'Die Tragödie überschattete alle erzählende Lyrik'. 5 By contrast, the importance for tragedy of Stesichorus' fellow-westerner and near-contemporary Ibycus has received less attention; see however Ucciardello 2005 25-7 for some possible links.