Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 The state of Stesichorean studies; Part I Stesichorus and epic; 2 Stesichorus' Homer; Reception methodologies; Lyric poetry before Stesichorus - Alcaeus, Sappho, Alcman; Stesichorus and Homer; Conclusion; 3 Stesichorus and the Epic Cycle; 4 Epic, lyric, and lyric epic; Part II Stesichorean poetics; 5 Stesichorus, master of narrative; Cycnus; Thebais; Helen; Conclusion; 6 Stesichorus the romantic; Part III Reception and influence; 7 Stesichorus at Athens
Stesichorus in Athens in the 420s?Stesichorus in Athens in the 480s?; Stesichorus in Athens before the 560s?; 8 Stesichorus on stage; The Oresteia; The Thebais; Conclusion; 9 Sweet Stesichorus; 10 Stesichorus' readers; French Renaissance poets; Italian humanists; From the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries; Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red; Bibliography; Index of subjects; Index of Greek; Index of passages discussed
