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STASANOR. STASINUS. 899
Apollo, who saved them, transferred Parthenos to xiii. 4). Here he appears to have remained in
Bubastus in the Chersonesus, where a sanctuary quiet for some years, taking no open part, so far
was dedicated to her, and Molpadia, under the as we are informed in the contest between Euname of Hemithea, to Castabus in the Chersonesus. menes and Antigonus, though apparently inclined
There a temple was erected to her also, which no in favour of the former: but he secured the atone was allowed to enter who had touched a swine, tachment of the native population by the justice
and where libations were offered to her, consisting and moderation of his rule, and thus established
of honey and water. Hemithea was worshipped his power so firmly that Antigonus found it pruespecially as a divinity affording relief to women in dent to pardon his favourable disposition towards
child-bed (Diod. v. 52, 63). According to others his rival, and left him in the undisturbed posHemithea became by Lyrcus the mother of Basi- session of his satrapy, B. c. 316. (Diod. xix. 48.)
leus. (Parthen. Erot. 1.) [L. S.] From this time his name does not appear again in
STA'PHYLUS (rdqp9vXos), of Naucratis, in history. [E. H. B.]
Egypt, a Greek writer quoted by Strabo (x. p. 475), STASI'CRATES ('auTlKpdarn's), one of the
Pliny (II. N. v. 31), and Athenaeus (ii. p. 45, c.), various architects, or one of the various forms of
as well as by the scholiasts, wrote a work on the name of the architect, to whom different writers
Thessaly (Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. iv. 816; Harpo- ascribe the design of the city of Alexandria. (See
crat. s. v. 7rEvEcrrai; Schol. ad Azrisloph. Nub. 1064), DEINOCRATES.) [P. S.]
on Aeolia and Attica (Harpocrat. s. vv. isrifoLov, STASI'NUS (-raotZvos), of Cyprus, an epic
7rpovaia), and on Arcadia (Sext. Empir. adv. Math. poet, to whom some of the ancient writers attri116). buted that one of the poems of the Epic Cycle
STASANDER (T'd(roavspos), a native of Cy- which was entitled Kvwrpia or r-& VEra71 Tr KVrpla.
prus, was an officer in the service of Alexander the The statements on the subject are, however, so vaGreat, and must have attained to considerable dis- rious, and partake so much of conjecture, that no
tinction, though his name is not mentioned during certain conclusion can be drawn from them. In
the lifetime of that monarch; as only two years the earliest historical period of Greek literature,
after his death, in the second division of the pro- and before critical inquiries began, the Cypria was
vinces at Triparadeisus (B. c. 321), Stasander ob- accepted without question as a work of Homer.
tained the important satrapy of Aria and Dran- Pindar refers to it as Homer's (Fr. 189, op. Aegiana, in which he succeeded Stasanor (Arr. ap. lian, V. H. ix. 15; but there is some doubt as
P'hot. p. 71, b; Died. xviii. 39). In the contest to the genuineness of the quotation); and the
between Eumenes and Antigonus, he sided with respect in which it was held by thb early tragethe former, whom he joined with all the forces he diaiis is evident from the number of their dramas
could muster, and we find him particularly men- which were founded upon it. Herodotus (ii.
tioned as taking part in the decisive action in 117) decidedly controverts the opinion which asGabiene. Hence, after the final triumph of Anti- cribed it to Homer; but in a manner which plainly
gonus, he was deprived by the conqueror of his shows that that opinion was still the prevailing
satrapy, which was given to Euitus. (Diod. xix. one. Plato, on the other hand, quotes as from
14, 27, 48.) [E. H. B.] Homer two verses which, the Scholiast asserts,
STASANOR (C'raadvwp), a native of Soli in are from the Cypr-ia (Euthyphr. p. 12, a.). ArisCyprus, who held a distinguished position among totle (Poet. xxiii. 6) distinguishes the author of
the officers of Alexander the Great (Strab. xiv. the C/ypriaefrom Homer, but without mentioning
p. 683). I-e probably entered the service of that the name of the former; and Pausanias refers to
monarch after the conquest of Cyprus in B. c. 333, the poem in the same manner (iii. 16. ~ I; iv. 2.
but the first occasion on which his name is men- ~ 7; x. 26. ~ 1; x. 31. ~ 2). It is not till we
tioned is during the campaign in Bactria, when he come down to the times of Athenaeus and the
was detached by Alexander with a strong force to grammarians, that we find any mention of Stasinus;
reduce Arsames, the revolted satrap of Aria. This and even then the poem is ascribed to him in a
service, in conjunction with Phrataphernes, he very hesitating and indefinite manner. Thus
successfully accomplished, and rejoined Alexander Athenaeus in one passage (ii. p. 35, c.), speaks of
at Zariaspa in the autumn of B. c. 328, bringing " the poet of the Cypria, whoever he may be;"
with him Arsames himself as a captive, as well as in another (viii. p. 334), he mentions the author
Barzanes, who had been appointed by Bessus sa- in the following indefinite way, 6 7a K67rpia
trap of Parthia (Arr. Anab. iii. 29, iv. 7). As a 7roo'acss e6r7v, ei'e Kdv7rpls Ti's eaTorv X) sral-vos
reward for this exploit he obtained the satrapy of i0) lo-rTs 7pE ror Xaipe5, bvota/tesvos; and in a
Aria, which was, however, soon after changed for third (xv. p. 682, e.), he quotes the author of the
that of Drangiana, in the command of which he poem as either Hegesias or Stasinus, and adds that
remained during the whole of Alexander's cam- Demodamas of Halicarnassus made the author of
paign in India. On the king's return, Stasanor the Cypria a native of Halicarnassus. Lastly,
was one of those who met him in Carmania with Proclus, who is our chief authority for the history
a very opportune supply of camels and other beasts of the epic cycle, not only tells us that the poem
of burthen, but returned to resume the charge of was ascribed to Stasinus or Hegesinas or Homer,
his province when Alexander continued his march but what he and others tell us of Stasinus only
towards Persia (Arr. ib. iv. 18, vi. 27, 29; Curt. adds new doubts to those which already beset the
viii. 3. ~ 17). In the first partition of the pro- subject, and new proofs of the uncertainties of the
vinces after the death of Alexander, Stasanor re- ancients themselves respecting it. (Procl. Chrestained his former satrapy of Drangiana, but in the tom. in Gaisford's Hephaestion et Proclus,pp. 471,
subsequent division at Triparadeisus (B.C. 321), he foll.; quoted also by Photius, Bibl. Cod. ccxxxix.
exchanged it for the more important government of pp. 319, a. foll.). Stasinus was said to be the sonBactria and Sogdiana (Diod. xviii. 3, 39; Dexipp. in-law of Homer, who, according to one story,
ap. Plot. p. 64, b; Arrian, ibid. p. 71, b; Justin. composed the Cypria and gave it to Stasinus aa
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