Editing Bacchylides (section)

===Ode 15===
The Sons of [[Antenor]], or Helen Demanded Back, is the first of Bacchylides’s dithyrambs in the text restored in 1896.  The opening is incomplete, as part of the papyrus was damaged.<ref>“Bacchylides.” The 1911 Classic Encyclopedia. 6 Oct 2006, accessed 12 March 2012.</ref>  The dithyramb treats a moment in myth before the Trojan war, when [[Menelaus]], Antenor, and Antenor’s sons go to King [[Priam]] to demand the return of Helen.  As is often the case with ancient Greek literature, Bacchylides plays of the audience’s knowledge of Homer without repeating a scene told by Homer.  He instead describes a scene which is new to the audience, but which is given context by knowledge of the Iliad and [[Odyssey]]. The story of this embassy was known to Homer, who merely alludes to it at ''Iliad'' 3.205ff., but it was fully related in the cyclic epic poem ''[[Cypria]]'', according to the ''[[Chrestomathy]]'' of Proclus.

The style also plays off of Homer.  Characters are almost always named with their fathers, i.e. Odysseus, son of Laertes (as reconstructed).  They are also given epithets, though these are not the traditional Homeric epithets: godly Antenor, upright Justice, reckless Outrage.{{sfn|Fagles|1961|p={{page needed|date=April 2017}}}}