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Encyclopedia Britannica



LASUS

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 238 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LASUS , Greek lyric poet, of Hermione in Argolis, flourished about 510 B.C. A member of the literary and artistic circle of the Peisistratidae, he was the instructor of
Pindar
  in music and poetry and the rival of
Simonides
 . The dithyramb (of which he was sometimes considered the actual inventor) was developed by him, by the aid of various changes in music and
rhythm
 , into an artistically constructed choral song, with an accompaniment of several flutes. It became more artificial and mimetic in
character
 , and its range of subjects was no longer confined to the adventures of Dionysus. Lasus further increased its popularity by introducing prize contests for the best poem of the kind. His over-refinement is shown by his avoidance of the
letter
  sigma (on account of its hissing
sound
 ) in several of his poems, of one of which (a hymn to Demeter of Hermione) a few lines have been preserved in Athenaeus (xiv. 624 E). Lasus was also the author of the first theoretical treatise on music.
See Suidas s.v.; Aristophanes, Wasps, 141o, Birds, 1403 and schol.;
Plutarch
 , De Musica, xxix.; Muller and
Donaldson
 , Hist. of Greek Literature, i. 284; G. H. Bode, Geschichte der hellenischen Dichtkunst, ii. pt. 2, p. 111; F. W. Schneidewin, De Laso Hermibnensi Comment. (Gottingen, 1842) ; Fragm. in Bergk, Poet. Lyr.


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