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Stesichorus set heroic myth, including a famous Palinode retracting his own earlier slander of Helen, to choral lyric on a scale approaching epic, bridging Homeric narrative and the personal lyric tradition.
Stesichorus set heroic myth, including a famous Palinode retracting his own earlier slander of Helen, to choral lyric on a scale approaching epic, bridging Homeric narrative and the personal lyric tradition.
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