TERPANDER
Lire

Athenaeus Doctors αἱ Dinner: When Poscidonius
says this, he does not realise that the magadis is an
ancient instrument, because Pindar pl: inly states
that Terpander invented the barbifos or lyre to
peepee © to the Lydian pectis or lute, in the words

*Which Lesbian T erpander invented of old to vibrate
in answer to the low-pitched lute at the feasts of the
Lydians;’ and the peetis and the magadis are the
same... It is clear that Terpander was earlier
than Anacreon from the following considerations.
According to Hellanicus both in his metrical and in
his formal lists of Victors at the Carneian Festival,
the first recorded name is VTerpanders: and we
know from Sosibius’ Chronology that the festival was
founded in the 26th Olympiad (nc. 676-673), while
Hieronymus’ tract On Singers to the Lyre, which
forms the fifth Book of his Treatise on the Poets,
assigns him to the time of the lawgiver Lycurgus,
who is admitted on all hands to have arranged with
Iphitus of Klis the first Olympic Games reckoned in
the list (8.6. 776).

Parian Chronicle τ From ithe time when the Lesbian

Terpander son of Derdenes . . . the ‘nomes’ .. .

1 i.e. to accompany if an octave higher? ‘trary ht.
‘highest > was according to our reckoning the lowe rst note in
a Greek ‘ mode ’)

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