The remains of Stesichorus, in an English version |
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Page 18 - ... Leuke, where there are Achilles and Helen. His friend Autoleon, who has also offended, but against the memory of Ajax, goes there, with a commission from Stesichorus, and brings from Helen's own lips — what a heavenly interview !— her decree. The voyage sketched, we learn that ' The desert Leuke next was won, Sacred to Thetis' godlike son ; Shades of Ajaces there were seen, The less and he of giant mien, Achilles there, and at his side The chaste, the lovely Spartan bride.
Page 16 - ... Helen has been soiled with shame. In stanza 2 he relates how he has been struck blind by Castor and Pollux. XI. The Fall of Troy. XII. The Return from Troy, a companion poem to the Odyssey. XIII. Helen. Mr. Broomhead seems to think that ' the satirical invective against Helen was probably a poem of lighter nature than the present, more in unison with the Palinodia, and forming a sort of first part to that production. XIV. Palinodia, or the Recantation of Helena. In stanzas 3, 4, 5 he is advised...
Page 18 - ... faithful to thy marriage vow."' And in stanza 8: ' Blindly I sang: " With willing heart Did Helen from her home depart."' In stanza 9: In stanza 10 : ' The faithless Paris put to sea With a dead Image, shaped like Thee.' And he concluded by relating that he again regained his eyesight (stanza 11): ' The Twins propitious hear the righteous lay: Again I now behold the Light of Day.
Page 14 - Troy,z still known to Pausanias, the enraged people were about to stone the fatal woman because of their misfortune : ' Armed with the stony shower, the desperate crew Rush headlong to inflict the vengeance due; In Beauty armed the bright...
Page 18 - Thetis' godlike son; Shades of Ajaces there were seen, The less and he of giant mien, Achilles there, and at his side The chaste, the lovely Spartan bride.'' Autoleon, in stanza 6 : ' He brought a warning back to me: " From Helen tell that poetaster To me he owes the dire disaster; He shall recant those calumnies, And he shall laud me to the skies.
Page 18 - ... Helen tell that poetaster To me he owes the dire disaster; He shall recant those calumnies, And he shall laud me to the skies." ' Such, then, is fair Helen's decree to the poet, who acts accordingly (stanza 7): '" O Helen ! Queen of Beauty thou, And faithful to thy marriage vow."' And in stanza 8: ' Blindly I sang: " With willing heart Did Helen from her home depart.