"This is not a true story": Stesichorus's Palinode and the Revenge of the Epichoric

Abstract

While many have written on the fragment of Stesichorus's Palinode presented to us in the Phaedrus, most of this work has focused on attempting to understand the function the palinode may have played within Stesichorus's work or his performance tradition, and on the nature of Stesichorus's offense against Helen, the offense which prompted her blinding of him and his subsequent creation of the Palinode fragment itself. Careful examination shows that the language it uses is carefully chosen to situate Stesichorus's work in opposition to epic and Panhellenic versions of the story of Helen.

Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus

“…35. For further discussions of the Palinode and its implications for truth and poetry, see Austin 1994, 2-17 and 90-117;Bassi 1993;Beecroft 2006;andPark 2017. 36.…”

Egypt as threshold and the hero in focus in Helen by euripedes

“…Herodotus chooses to include Egypt in the version adopted, but doesn't mention any ghost of Helen. According to a scholiast of Lycophron, Hesiod would have been the first to speak of it (822, scholium of Alexandra, by Lycophron), but it is Plato who puts on record the earliest allusion to Helen's duplicity, citing three verses by Stesichorus, poet from the sixth century BC, whose fragment discovered in the twentieth century, preserved by the Oxyrhynchus Papyri number 2506, proves the quotation by the philosopher (Woodbury, 1967;Beecroft, 2006).…”

O Egito como limiar e o heroi em xeque em Helena de Eurípedes

“…Heródoto opta por incluir o Egito na versão que adota, mas não fala de fantasma algum. Segundo um escoliasta de Licofron, Hesíodo teria sido o primeiro a falar do fantasma de Helena (v. 822, escólio de Alexandra de Licofron), mas é Platão quem deixa registrada a alusão mais antiga à duplicidade de Helena, ao citar três versos de Estesícoro, poeta do século VI a. C., de quem um fragmento descoberto no século XX, preservado pelo Papiro de Oxirrinco 2506, comprova a citação do filósofo (Woodbury, 1967;Beecroft, 2006):…”