An imaginative bust of Stesichorus, from the town of Catania. The Lille Stesichorus is only a tattered papyrus fragment but it offers us our best insights into his poetry (if it is indeed his work)
The Lille Stesichorus is a papyrus containing a major fragment of poetry usually attributed to the archaic lyric poet Stesichorus, discovered at Lille University and published in 1976.[1] It has been considered the most important of all the Stesichorus fragments, confirming his role as an historic link between genres as different as the epic poetry of Homer and the lyric poetry of Pindar. The subject matter and style are typical of his work generally but not all scholars have accepted it as his work.[2] The fragment is a narrative treatment of a popular myth, involving the family of Oedipus and the tragic history of Thebes, and thus it sheds light on other treatments of the same myth, such as by Sophocles in Oedipus Tyrannos[3] and Aeschylus in Seven Against Thebes.[4] The fragment is significant also in the history of colometry since it includes lyric verses that have been divided into metrical cola, a practice usually associated with the later career of Aristophanes of Byzantium.[5][6]
^G. Ancher and C. Meillier, Cahier de Recherches de l'Institut de Papyrologie et d'Egyptologie de Lille IV
^C. Segal, Archaic choral lyric, 186
^R. Martin, The Voices of Jocasta
^W. Thalmann, The Lille Stesichorus and the "Seven Against Thebes"
^D. Kovacs, Text and Transmission, 385
^E. Turner, Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World, 124–25
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