Terpandros

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Terpandros ( Greek Τέρπανδρος Térpandros , German Terpander ) was an ancient Greek Kitharöde . He apparently lived in the late 8th and early 7th centuries BC. BC, but maybe not until the middle of the 7th century.

The sources given about Terpander's lifetime vary. According to Hellanikos of Lesbos , it falls into the late 8th and early 7th centuries BC. According to the chronological classification of Phainias of Eresus, Terpander should have been around the middle of the 7th century BC. Have lived. He came from the island of Lesbos ; the hometown is usually Antissa , but also Methymna (today's Mithymna ).

Terpander is considered to be the creator of the classical music of the ancient Greeks and thus the founder of Greek poetry by first giving the old chorale-like chants in honor of Apollon ( Nomoi ) an artistic expression through regular structuring and inventing the seven-stringed kithara instead of the previous four- stringed kithara . After Sparta internal disputes to arbitration at the behest of the Delphic oracle called, he ordered the Doric music being. He is said to be 676 BC. In the first musical competition on the festival of the Karneen , also between 672 and 648 BC. Four times in a row at the Pythian games . Only a few verses have survived from his poetry.

expenditure

  • John M. Edmonds (Eds.): Terpander, Alcman, Sappho and Alcaeus . Cambridge (Mass.) 1958 ( Loeb Classical Library , Lyra Graeca , Volume 1)
  • Antonia Gostoli (Ed.): Terpandro. Rome 1990

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personal data
SURNAME Terpandros
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Terpander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek musician and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century BC BC or 7th century BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH Antissa or Methymna
DATE OF DEATH 7th century BC Chr.