5/17/2023 0 Comments Fragment 1611) : Flourished Alcman, according to some authorities. 2 And twin continents dispute whether he is of Lydia or Laconia for the mothers of a minstrel are many.Īlcman was the salve of Agesidas, but received his freedom because he was a man of parts. You shall know this for Alcman, striker pre-eminent of the Laconian lyre, one possessed of the nine Muses. The tomb you see is small, but it holds the bones of a great man. 2 :Īlexander of Aetolia : Ancient Sardis, abode of my fathers, had I been reared in you I should have been a maund-bearer unto Cybelè or beaten pretty tambours as one of her gilded eunuchs but instead my name is Alcman and my home Sparta, town of prize-tripods, and the lore I know is of the Muses of Helicon, who have made me a greater king even than Gyges son of Dasyclus.Īntipater of Thessalonica on Alcman : Judge not the man by the gravestone. For instance they summoned Terpander, Thales, Tyrtaeus, Nymphaeus of Cydonia, and Alcman. Yet if ever they required the aid o the Muses on occasion of general sickness of body or mind or any like public affliction, their custom was to send for foreigners, at the bidding of the Delphic oracle, to act as healers and purifiers. The Spartans, who bent was for bodily exercises and feats of arms, had no skill in music. 1 Being a Spartan, he uses the Doric dialect. He wrote six Books of lyric poems, and was the first to adopt the practice of not accompanying the hexameter with music. He was of an extremely amorous disposition and the inventor of love-poems, but by birth a slave. 631-625), when Ardys father of Alyattes was king of Lydia. A lyric poet, the son of Damas or, according to some authorities, of Titarus. EDMONDS ALCMAN, LIFEĪlcman :– A Laconian of Messoa, wrongly called by Crates a Lydian of Sardis. ALCMAN LYRA GRAECA I ALCMAN FRAGMENTS, TRANSLATED BY J.
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