Stesichorus

Stesichorus, greatest of the old Dorian lyrists, and as such called the 'lyric Homer,' was born at Himera in Sicily about 630 B.C., and died in Catania in 556. He dealt largely with epic subjects in his lyrical measures, such as the sieges of Troy and of Thebes, and was said to have been struck blind for slandering Helen. Only some thirty short fragments of his works remain, to be found in Schneidewin's Delectus and Bergk's Poetæ Lyrici.