There is also of the booty, he was said to have received an
a quotation in the Etymologicum Magnum (s.
a quotation in the Etymologicum Magnum (s.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
A pastoral poem, entitled
that he was buried by a gate of the city, which sáovis. 5. Fables : 'Innos kal érapos, rewpyds
was called after him the Stesichoreian gate, and kal åetós, Els Aókpous Trapalveris. 6. Élegies.
that a splendid octagonal monument was erected The dialect of Stesichorus was Dorian, with an
over his tomb, having eight pillars and eight sets intermixture of the epic. His nomes were mostly
of steps and eight angles ; whence, according to in the Dorian, but sometimes also in the Phrygian
some was derived the name Στησίχορος αριθμος, | mode.
applied to the throw “ all eight” in gaming. (Suid. The fragments of Stesichorus have been printed
s. 7. Távta OKTW ; Pollux, ix. 7 ; Eustath. ad Hom. with the editions of Pindar published in 1560,
pp. 1229, 1397. )
1566, 1567, 1586, 1598, 1620, and in the collec-
There are extant two ancient epitaphs on Stesi- tions of the Greek poets published in 1568 and
chorus, the one in Greek, by Antipater (Jacobs, 1569, and recently in the collections of Schneide-
Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. 328), the other in Latin win and Bergk. They have also been edited by
(Ferrett. Mus. Lapidar. v. 36, p. 354). The peo- Suchfort, Götting. 1771, 4to. ; by Blomfield, in
ple of Thermae, the town which succeeded Himera, the Museum Criticum, vol. ii. pp. 256—272, 340
had a bronze statue of the poet, which Cicero de. -358, 504, 607, and in Gaisford's Poetae Minores
scribes as statua senilis, incurva, cum libro, summo Graeci ; and by Fr. Kleine, Berol. 1828, 8vo. The
ut putant artificio facta (Verr. ii. 35). This or last mentioned is by far the most useful edition of
another statue formed afterwards one of the trea- the fragments, and the anthorities respecting the
sures of the gymnasium of Zeuxippus at Byzantium. life and writings of the poet are collected and dis-
(Christod. Ecphr. I. c. ) There is also a bronze cussed in a dissertation prefixed to the fragments.
medal of Himera, bearing on the reverse a man (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ij. pp. 151–157 ; Müller,
standing, holding a crown in his right hand and a Hist. of Lit. of Anc. Greece, pp. 197—203 ; Bern-
lyre in his left, which some suppose to have been hardy, Grundriss d. Griech. Litt
. vol. ii. pp. 471-
struck in honour of Stesichorus.
477 ; Kleine, as above quoted. ) (P. S. )
Among the ancient writers who celebrated his STESICLEIDES (ETNOideions), an Athenian,
praises were Cicero (l. c. ), Aristeides (Orat. vol. i. wrote a catalogue of the archons and victors in the
P. 152, ed. Steph. ), Dionysius (de Comp. Verb. Olympic games. (Diog. Laërt. ii. 56. )
Fol. ii. p. 28, ed. Sylb. ), Longinus (xiii. 3), Dio STEPSICLES (ETTouriñs), an Athenian, was
Chrysostom (p. 559, d. ed. Morell. ), and Synesius sent in B. C. 373 with a force of some 600 tar-
(Insom. p. 158, b. ed. Paris. 1612), nearly all of geteers to aid the democratic party at Corcyra
whom compare him to Homer in character and against the Lacedaemonians under Mnasippus. A
style. Quintilian's testimony is, in general, to the more effective armament of 60 ships, with Timo-
same effect, but he blames the language of Stesi- theus for commander, was to follow as soon as it
chorus as diffuse (x. i. 62). Hermogenes, on the could be got ready. Meanwhile, Stesicles, with
contrary, says that his numerous epithets add sweet- the assistance of Alcetas I. , king of Epeirus,
ness to his style (de Form. Orat. ii. p. 409, ed. effected an entrance into the town under cover of
Laurent. ). For other testimonies see Kleine, night. Here he reconciled the dissensions of the
sect. ix.
democratic party, united them against the common
Stesichorus was one of the nine chiefs of lyric enemy, and conducted that series of successful
poetry recognized by the ancients He stands, I operations, which ended in the defeat and death of
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STHENELUS.
STHENIS.
Mnasippus, and the withdrawal of the Lacedae | be accompanied Heracles from Paros on his ex.
monian feet even before the arrival of Iphicrates, pedition against the Amazons, and together with
who had superseded Timotheus (MNASIPPUS). his brother Alcaeus he was appointed by Heracles
There can be no question as to the identity of the ruler of Thasos. (Apollod. ii. 5. & 9 ; comp. Apollon.
Stesicles of Xenophon with the Ctesicles of Dio- Rhod. ii. 911, who confounds him with No. 5. )
dorus. But the latter writer tells us that Ctesicles 5. A son of Actor, likewise a companion of He-
had been sent some time before to Zacynthus, to racles in his expedition against the Amazons; but
take the command against the Spartans of the he died and was buried in Paphlagonia, where he
Zacynthian exiles, whom Timotheus had restored. afterwards appeared to the Argonauts. (Apollon.
Schneider would reconcile the two authors by sup- Rhod. ii. 911. )
posing that he was ordered to proceed from Zacyn- 6. A son of Capaneus and Evadne, belonged to
thus to Corcyra ; nor does this seem so inconsistent the family of the Anaxagoridae in Argos, and was
with the language of Xenophon as Thirlwall and the father of Cylarabes (Hom. II. v. 109; Paus.
Rehdantz represent it. (Xen. Hell. vi. 2. S$ 10 ii. 18. $ 4, 22. $ 8, 30. in fin. ); but, according to
-26 ; Diod. xv. 46, 47; Schneider, ad Xen. Hell. others, his son's name was Comeles. (Tzetz. ad
vi. 2. & 10; Wesseling, ad Diod. xv. 47; Thirl. Lycoph. 603, 1093; Serv. ad Aen. xi. 269. ) lle
wall's Greece, vol. v. p. 60, note; Rehdantz, Vitae was one of the Epigoni, by whom Thebes was
Iph. Chabr. Timoth. iv. & 3. )
[E. E. ] taken (Ilom. Il. iv. 405; Apollod. iii. 7. $ 2), and
STESIMBROTUS (Etnoiu@poros), of Thasos, commanded the Argives under Diomedes, in the
a rhapsodist and historian in the time of Cimon Trojan war, being the faithful friend and com-
and Pericles, who is mentioned with praise by panion of Diomedes. (Hom. Il. ii. 564, iv. 367,
Plato and Xenophon, and who wrote a work upon xxiii
. 511 ; Philostr. Her. 4; Hygin. Fub. 175. )
Homer, the title of which is not known. He also He was one of the Greeks concealed in the wooden
wrote some historical works, for he is frequently horse (Hygin. Fab. 108), and at the distribution
quoted by Plutarch as an authority.
There is also of the booty, he was said to have received an
a quotation in the Etymologicum Magnum (s. v. image of a three-eyed Zeus, which was in after-
’ldaiol) from a work of his on the mysteries, tepl times shown at Argos. (Paus. ii. 45. § 5, viii. 46.
TENETWv. (Plat. Ion, p. 550, c. ; Xen. Mem. iv. $ 2. ) His own statue and tomb also were believed
2. § 10, Sympos. iii
. 5; Plut. Them. 2, 24, Cim. to exist at Argos. (ii. 20. § 4, 22. in fin. ; comp.
4, 14, 16, Per. 8, 10, 13, 26, 36 ; Strab. x. p. Horat. Carm. i. 15. 23, iv. 9. 20 ; Stat. Achill. i. 469. )
472 ; Ath. xiii. p. 598, e. ; Tatian. adv. Graec. 7. The father of Cycnus, was metamorphosed
48; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 524, 358,512 ; into a swan. (Ov. Met. ii. 368. ) (L. S. ]
Vossius, de Hist. Graec. pp. 43, 44, ed. Wester- STHE'NELUS (Oévedos), a tragic poet, con-
mann. )
[P. S. ) temporary with Aristophanes, who attacked him in
STHEINO or STHENO (EDELVÁ or seeva), the Gerytades and the Wasps. (Aristoph. Vesp.
one of the Gorgons. (Hes. Theog. 276 ; Apollod. 1312, and the Schol. ) The scholiast here 'speaks
ii. 4. & 2. )
(L. S. ) of him as a tragic actor, which is evidently a mis-
STHENEBOEA (Zbevéboua), a daughter of Jo- take, for Harpocration (s. v. ) expressly tells us that
bates, or Amphianax or Apheidas, was the wife of he was mentioned in the Didascaliae as a tragic
Proetus. From love of Bellerophon she made poet, and there are several references to him as
away with herself, whence Bellerophon is called such. He is mentioned by Aristotle (Poel. 22)
heros Sthenebocius. (Apollod. ii. 2. § 1, iii. 9. $ 1; with Cleophon, as an example of those poets whose
comp. Proerus and HJPPONOUS. ) (L. S. ] words are well chosen, but whose diction is not at
STHENELA'IDAS (@evenäldas), a Spartan, all elevated. The insipidity of his style is happily
who held the office of ephor in B. C. 432, and, in ridiculed by Aristophanes in the question,
“ How
the congress of the Lacedaemonians and their allies shall I eat the words of Sthenelus, dipping them in
at Sparta in that year, vehemently and successfully vinegar or in dry salt ? ” (Geryt. ap. Schol. ad
urged the assembly to decree war with Athens. Vesp. l. C. ; Ath. ix. p. 367. ). The comic poet
The speech which Thucydides puts into his mouth | Plato also, in his Lacones, attacked him for plagia-
on this occasion is strongly marked by the charac- rism. (Harpocr. and Phot s. v. ) There are no
teristics of Spartan eloquence, - brevity and sim- fragments of Sthenelus, except a single verse quoted
plicity. (Thuc. i. 85, 86, viii
. 5 ; Paus. iii. 7. ) [E. E. ] by Athenaeus (x. p. 428, a. ), which, being an
STHENELAS (0evéras), a son of Crotopus, hexameter, can hardly belong to a tragedy. Per-
father of Gelanor and king of Argos. (Paus. ii. 16. haps Sthenelus composed elegies. How long he
§ 1, 19. & 2. )
[L, S. ) lived is not known : from his not being mentioned
STHENÉLE (EDévean), the name of two mythi- in the Frogs, Kayser supposes that he had died
cal personages, one a daughter of Danaus (Apollod. before the exhibition of that play in B. C. 406.
ii. 1. $ 5), and the other a daughter of Acastus and (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 323 ; Welcker, die
mother of Patroclus. (iii. 12. $ 8. ) [L. S. ) Griech. Tragöd. p. 1033 ; Kayser, Hist. Crit. Trag.
STHE'NELUS (Edévelos). 1. One of the sons Graec. pp. 323–325; Wagner, Frag. Trag.
of Aegyptus and husband of Sthenele. (Apollod. Graec. in Didot’s Bibliotheca, p. 91. ) [P. S. )
ii. 1. & 5. )
STHENIS or STHENNIS (Σθένις, Σθέννις,
2. A son of Melas, who was killed by Tydeus. the former is the form used by the ancient writers,
(Apollod. i. 8. $ 5; comp. Oeneus. )
the latter in extant inscriptions), a statuary of Olyn-
3. A son of Perseus and Andromeda, and hus- thus, is mentioned by Pliny as contemporary with
band of Nicippe, by whom he became the father of | Lysippus and others, at the 114th Olympiad, B. C.
Alcinoë, Medusa, and Eurystheus. (Hom. Il. xix. 323. (H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. The false reading
116; Ov.
that he was buried by a gate of the city, which sáovis. 5. Fables : 'Innos kal érapos, rewpyds
was called after him the Stesichoreian gate, and kal åetós, Els Aókpous Trapalveris. 6. Élegies.
that a splendid octagonal monument was erected The dialect of Stesichorus was Dorian, with an
over his tomb, having eight pillars and eight sets intermixture of the epic. His nomes were mostly
of steps and eight angles ; whence, according to in the Dorian, but sometimes also in the Phrygian
some was derived the name Στησίχορος αριθμος, | mode.
applied to the throw “ all eight” in gaming. (Suid. The fragments of Stesichorus have been printed
s. 7. Távta OKTW ; Pollux, ix. 7 ; Eustath. ad Hom. with the editions of Pindar published in 1560,
pp. 1229, 1397. )
1566, 1567, 1586, 1598, 1620, and in the collec-
There are extant two ancient epitaphs on Stesi- tions of the Greek poets published in 1568 and
chorus, the one in Greek, by Antipater (Jacobs, 1569, and recently in the collections of Schneide-
Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. 328), the other in Latin win and Bergk. They have also been edited by
(Ferrett. Mus. Lapidar. v. 36, p. 354). The peo- Suchfort, Götting. 1771, 4to. ; by Blomfield, in
ple of Thermae, the town which succeeded Himera, the Museum Criticum, vol. ii. pp. 256—272, 340
had a bronze statue of the poet, which Cicero de. -358, 504, 607, and in Gaisford's Poetae Minores
scribes as statua senilis, incurva, cum libro, summo Graeci ; and by Fr. Kleine, Berol. 1828, 8vo. The
ut putant artificio facta (Verr. ii. 35). This or last mentioned is by far the most useful edition of
another statue formed afterwards one of the trea- the fragments, and the anthorities respecting the
sures of the gymnasium of Zeuxippus at Byzantium. life and writings of the poet are collected and dis-
(Christod. Ecphr. I. c. ) There is also a bronze cussed in a dissertation prefixed to the fragments.
medal of Himera, bearing on the reverse a man (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ij. pp. 151–157 ; Müller,
standing, holding a crown in his right hand and a Hist. of Lit. of Anc. Greece, pp. 197—203 ; Bern-
lyre in his left, which some suppose to have been hardy, Grundriss d. Griech. Litt
. vol. ii. pp. 471-
struck in honour of Stesichorus.
477 ; Kleine, as above quoted. ) (P. S. )
Among the ancient writers who celebrated his STESICLEIDES (ETNOideions), an Athenian,
praises were Cicero (l. c. ), Aristeides (Orat. vol. i. wrote a catalogue of the archons and victors in the
P. 152, ed. Steph. ), Dionysius (de Comp. Verb. Olympic games. (Diog. Laërt. ii. 56. )
Fol. ii. p. 28, ed. Sylb. ), Longinus (xiii. 3), Dio STEPSICLES (ETTouriñs), an Athenian, was
Chrysostom (p. 559, d. ed. Morell. ), and Synesius sent in B. C. 373 with a force of some 600 tar-
(Insom. p. 158, b. ed. Paris. 1612), nearly all of geteers to aid the democratic party at Corcyra
whom compare him to Homer in character and against the Lacedaemonians under Mnasippus. A
style. Quintilian's testimony is, in general, to the more effective armament of 60 ships, with Timo-
same effect, but he blames the language of Stesi- theus for commander, was to follow as soon as it
chorus as diffuse (x. i. 62). Hermogenes, on the could be got ready. Meanwhile, Stesicles, with
contrary, says that his numerous epithets add sweet- the assistance of Alcetas I. , king of Epeirus,
ness to his style (de Form. Orat. ii. p. 409, ed. effected an entrance into the town under cover of
Laurent. ). For other testimonies see Kleine, night. Here he reconciled the dissensions of the
sect. ix.
democratic party, united them against the common
Stesichorus was one of the nine chiefs of lyric enemy, and conducted that series of successful
poetry recognized by the ancients He stands, I operations, which ended in the defeat and death of
i
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910
STHENELUS.
STHENIS.
Mnasippus, and the withdrawal of the Lacedae | be accompanied Heracles from Paros on his ex.
monian feet even before the arrival of Iphicrates, pedition against the Amazons, and together with
who had superseded Timotheus (MNASIPPUS). his brother Alcaeus he was appointed by Heracles
There can be no question as to the identity of the ruler of Thasos. (Apollod. ii. 5. & 9 ; comp. Apollon.
Stesicles of Xenophon with the Ctesicles of Dio- Rhod. ii. 911, who confounds him with No. 5. )
dorus. But the latter writer tells us that Ctesicles 5. A son of Actor, likewise a companion of He-
had been sent some time before to Zacynthus, to racles in his expedition against the Amazons; but
take the command against the Spartans of the he died and was buried in Paphlagonia, where he
Zacynthian exiles, whom Timotheus had restored. afterwards appeared to the Argonauts. (Apollon.
Schneider would reconcile the two authors by sup- Rhod. ii. 911. )
posing that he was ordered to proceed from Zacyn- 6. A son of Capaneus and Evadne, belonged to
thus to Corcyra ; nor does this seem so inconsistent the family of the Anaxagoridae in Argos, and was
with the language of Xenophon as Thirlwall and the father of Cylarabes (Hom. II. v. 109; Paus.
Rehdantz represent it. (Xen. Hell. vi. 2. S$ 10 ii. 18. $ 4, 22. $ 8, 30. in fin. ); but, according to
-26 ; Diod. xv. 46, 47; Schneider, ad Xen. Hell. others, his son's name was Comeles. (Tzetz. ad
vi. 2. & 10; Wesseling, ad Diod. xv. 47; Thirl. Lycoph. 603, 1093; Serv. ad Aen. xi. 269. ) lle
wall's Greece, vol. v. p. 60, note; Rehdantz, Vitae was one of the Epigoni, by whom Thebes was
Iph. Chabr. Timoth. iv. & 3. )
[E. E. ] taken (Ilom. Il. iv. 405; Apollod. iii. 7. $ 2), and
STESIMBROTUS (Etnoiu@poros), of Thasos, commanded the Argives under Diomedes, in the
a rhapsodist and historian in the time of Cimon Trojan war, being the faithful friend and com-
and Pericles, who is mentioned with praise by panion of Diomedes. (Hom. Il. ii. 564, iv. 367,
Plato and Xenophon, and who wrote a work upon xxiii
. 511 ; Philostr. Her. 4; Hygin. Fub. 175. )
Homer, the title of which is not known. He also He was one of the Greeks concealed in the wooden
wrote some historical works, for he is frequently horse (Hygin. Fab. 108), and at the distribution
quoted by Plutarch as an authority.
There is also of the booty, he was said to have received an
a quotation in the Etymologicum Magnum (s. v. image of a three-eyed Zeus, which was in after-
’ldaiol) from a work of his on the mysteries, tepl times shown at Argos. (Paus. ii. 45. § 5, viii. 46.
TENETWv. (Plat. Ion, p. 550, c. ; Xen. Mem. iv. $ 2. ) His own statue and tomb also were believed
2. § 10, Sympos. iii
. 5; Plut. Them. 2, 24, Cim. to exist at Argos. (ii. 20. § 4, 22. in fin. ; comp.
4, 14, 16, Per. 8, 10, 13, 26, 36 ; Strab. x. p. Horat. Carm. i. 15. 23, iv. 9. 20 ; Stat. Achill. i. 469. )
472 ; Ath. xiii. p. 598, e. ; Tatian. adv. Graec. 7. The father of Cycnus, was metamorphosed
48; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 524, 358,512 ; into a swan. (Ov. Met. ii. 368. ) (L. S. ]
Vossius, de Hist. Graec. pp. 43, 44, ed. Wester- STHE'NELUS (Oévedos), a tragic poet, con-
mann. )
[P. S. ) temporary with Aristophanes, who attacked him in
STHEINO or STHENO (EDELVÁ or seeva), the Gerytades and the Wasps. (Aristoph. Vesp.
one of the Gorgons. (Hes. Theog. 276 ; Apollod. 1312, and the Schol. ) The scholiast here 'speaks
ii. 4. & 2. )
(L. S. ) of him as a tragic actor, which is evidently a mis-
STHENEBOEA (Zbevéboua), a daughter of Jo- take, for Harpocration (s. v. ) expressly tells us that
bates, or Amphianax or Apheidas, was the wife of he was mentioned in the Didascaliae as a tragic
Proetus. From love of Bellerophon she made poet, and there are several references to him as
away with herself, whence Bellerophon is called such. He is mentioned by Aristotle (Poel. 22)
heros Sthenebocius. (Apollod. ii. 2. § 1, iii. 9. $ 1; with Cleophon, as an example of those poets whose
comp. Proerus and HJPPONOUS. ) (L. S. ] words are well chosen, but whose diction is not at
STHENELA'IDAS (@evenäldas), a Spartan, all elevated. The insipidity of his style is happily
who held the office of ephor in B. C. 432, and, in ridiculed by Aristophanes in the question,
“ How
the congress of the Lacedaemonians and their allies shall I eat the words of Sthenelus, dipping them in
at Sparta in that year, vehemently and successfully vinegar or in dry salt ? ” (Geryt. ap. Schol. ad
urged the assembly to decree war with Athens. Vesp. l. C. ; Ath. ix. p. 367. ). The comic poet
The speech which Thucydides puts into his mouth | Plato also, in his Lacones, attacked him for plagia-
on this occasion is strongly marked by the charac- rism. (Harpocr. and Phot s. v. ) There are no
teristics of Spartan eloquence, - brevity and sim- fragments of Sthenelus, except a single verse quoted
plicity. (Thuc. i. 85, 86, viii
. 5 ; Paus. iii. 7. ) [E. E. ] by Athenaeus (x. p. 428, a. ), which, being an
STHENELAS (0evéras), a son of Crotopus, hexameter, can hardly belong to a tragedy. Per-
father of Gelanor and king of Argos. (Paus. ii. 16. haps Sthenelus composed elegies. How long he
§ 1, 19. & 2. )
[L, S. ) lived is not known : from his not being mentioned
STHENÉLE (EDévean), the name of two mythi- in the Frogs, Kayser supposes that he had died
cal personages, one a daughter of Danaus (Apollod. before the exhibition of that play in B. C. 406.
ii. 1. $ 5), and the other a daughter of Acastus and (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 323 ; Welcker, die
mother of Patroclus. (iii. 12. $ 8. ) [L. S. ) Griech. Tragöd. p. 1033 ; Kayser, Hist. Crit. Trag.
STHE'NELUS (Edévelos). 1. One of the sons Graec. pp. 323–325; Wagner, Frag. Trag.
of Aegyptus and husband of Sthenele. (Apollod. Graec. in Didot’s Bibliotheca, p. 91. ) [P. S. )
ii. 1. & 5. )
STHENIS or STHENNIS (Σθένις, Σθέννις,
2. A son of Melas, who was killed by Tydeus. the former is the form used by the ancient writers,
(Apollod. i. 8. $ 5; comp. Oeneus. )
the latter in extant inscriptions), a statuary of Olyn-
3. A son of Perseus and Andromeda, and hus- thus, is mentioned by Pliny as contemporary with
band of Nicippe, by whom he became the father of | Lysippus and others, at the 114th Olympiad, B. C.
Alcinoë, Medusa, and Eurystheus. (Hom. Il. xix. 323. (H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. The false reading
116; Ov.
