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ALCMAN, or ALCMAEON (the former being the Doric form of the name)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 524 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALCMAN, or ALCMAEON (the former being the Doric form of the name) , the founder of Doric lyric poetry, to whom was assigned the first
place
  among the nine lyric poets of
Greece
  in the Alexandrian
canon
 , flourished in the latter half of the 7th
century
  B.C. He was a Lydian of
Sardis
 , who came as a slave to
Sparta
 , where he lived in the family of Agesidas, by whom he was emancipated. His mastery of
Greek
  shows that he must have come very early to
Sparta
 , where, after the close of the Messenian wars, the
people
  were able to bestow their attention upon the 'arts of peace. Alcman composed various kinds of poems in various metres; Parthenia (maidens' songs), hymns, paeans, prosodia (processionals), and love-songs, of which he was considered the inventor. He was evidently fond of good living, and traces of Asiatic sensuousness seem out of
place
  amidst Spartan simplicity. The fragments are scanty, the most considerable being paxt of a Parthenon found in 1855 on an Egyptian papyrus; some recently discovered hexameters are attributed to Alcman or
Erinna
  (Oxyrhynchus papyri, i. 1898).
For general authorities see
ALcAEUS
 .


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