Stersichŏrus, a lyric Greek poet of Himera, in Sicily. He was originally called Tisias, and obtained the name of Stersichorus from the alterations which he made in music and dancing. His compositions were written in the Doric dialect, and comprised in 26 books, all now lost, except a few fragments. Some say he lost his eyesight for writing invectives against Helen, and that he received it only upon making a recantation of what he had said. He was the first inventor of that fable of the horse and the stag, which Horace and some other poets have imitated, and this he wrote to prevent his countrymen from making an alliance with Phalaris. According to some, he was the first who wrote an epithalamium. He flourished 556 B.C., and died at Cantana, in the 85th year of his age. Isocrates, Helen.—Aristotle, Rhetoric.—Strabo, bk. 3.—Lucian, Macrobii.—Cicero, in Against Verres, bk. 2, ch. 35.—Plutarch, de Musica.—Quintilian, bk. 10, ch. 1.—Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 19; bk. 10, ch. 26.
Stertinius, a stoic philosopher, ridiculed by Horace, bk. 2, satire 3. He wrote in Latin verse 220 books on the philosophy of the stoics.
Stesagŏras, a brother of Miltiades. See: [Miltiades].
Stesilēa, a beautiful woman of Athens, &c.
Stesilēus, a beautiful youth of Cos, loved by Themistocles and Aristides, and the cause of jealousy and dissension between these celebrated men. Plutarch, Cimon.
Stesimbrŏtus, an historian very inconsistent in his narrations. He wrote an account of Cimon’s exploits. Plutarch, Cimom.——A son of Epaminondas, put to death by his father, because he had fought the enemy without his orders, &c. Plutarch.——A musician of Thasos.
Sthenele, a daughter of Acastus, wife of Menœtius. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 13.——A daughter of Danaus by Memphis. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 1.
Sthenĕlus, a king of Mycenæ, son of Perseus and Andromeda. He married Nicippe the daughter of Pelops, by whom he had two daughters, and a son called Eurystheus, who was born, by Juno’s influence, two months before the natural time, that he might obtain a superiority over Hercules, as being older. Sthenelus made war against Amphitryon, who had killed Electryon and seized his kingdom. He fought with success, and took his enemy prisoner, whom he transmitted to Eurystheus. Homer, Iliad, bk. 19, li. 91.—Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 4.——One of the sons of Ægyptus by Tyria.——A son of Capaneus. He was one of the Epigoni, and of the suitors of Helen. He went to the Trojan war, and was one of those who were shut up in the wooden horse, according to Virgil. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 18.—Virgil, Æneid, bks. 2 & 10.——A son of Androgeus the son of Minos. Hercules made him king of Thrace. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 5.——A king of Argos, who succeeded his father Crotopus. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 16.——A son of Actor, who accompanied Hercules in his expedition against the Amazons. He was killed by one of these females.——A son of Melas, killed by Tydeus. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 8.
Sthenis, a statuary of Olynthus.——An orator of Himera in Sicily, during the civil wars of Pompey. Plutarch, Pompey.
Stheno, one of the three Gorgons.