Stesichorus
one of the nine great lyric poets of antiquity; is said to have been born in 632 в. c., either in Himera in Sicily, or Metaurus in Magna Græcia, and to have died about 556, but nothing certain is known concerning him. His own name, Tisias, he changed to Stesichorus ("leader of choirs") as the inventor of strophe, antistrophe, and epode, and with his predecessor Aleman he stands at the head of Dorian choral poets. His fragments include erotic, pastoral, and mythological pieces, fables and elegies, hymns, pæans, and epithalmia, and are collected in Bergk's "Poeta Lyrici Græci."