Terpander

Terpander (Greek Τέρπανδρος Terpander Germanized, Terpander ) was an ancient Greek musician and poet. He lived apparently in the late 8th and early 7th century BC, but perhaps not until the mid-7th century.

Life

The information on the sources of the lifetime Terpanders are different. After the presentation of the Hellanicus of Lesvos it falls into the late 8th and early 7th century BC, according to the chronological classification in Phainias of Eresus would Terpander around the middle of the 7th century BC have lived. He was a native of the island of Lesbos; as the home is usually Antissa, but (today Mithymna ) also called Methymna.

Terpander regarded as the creator of the classic music of the ancient Greeks and thus founder of Greek poetry by giving an artistic expression first the old chorale-like chants in honor of Apollo ( prefectures ) through regular structure and instead of the previous four-stringed lyre invented the seven-. Appointed to Sparta to settle internal disputes at the behest of the Delphic oracle, he ordered the Doric music beings. He is said to have 676 BC triumphed in the first musical contest in the feast of Karneen, as 672-648 BC four consecutive times at the Pythian games. From his poems only a few verses have been preserved.

Expenditure

• Antonia Gostoli (ed.): Terpandro. Rome 1990