LIFE OF TERPANDER

Homer—Faryphon— Boeus of Phocis-——Terpander :
a lyric poet who invented the lyre of seven strings
and, pace those who aseribe this to: Philammon. was
the first writer of lyric ‘nomes.’

Plutarch on Masic [see on Olympus p. 8].

The Same: According to Heracleides’ Collections
on the Musiciuns, the art of singing to the lyre and
the kind of poetry which belongs to it were the
invention of Amphion son of Zeus and Antiope, who
presumably was taught by his father. Tis authority
is the register preserved at Sicyon, from which he

derives his lists of the priestesses at Argos. the poets,
and the musicians. Of the same generation, according
to him, were Linus ..., Anthen . . .. Pierus τ
Philammon . . .. Thamyris . . ., Demodocus . νου
and Phemius. . . . These pocts’ writings were not

in prose, but resembled those of Stesichorus and
the old lyric poets who wrote epic lines and set
them to music. Even ‘Perpander, he declares, whose
forte was the citharoedic or lyre-sung nome, and to
whom he ascribes the naming of these nomes, in
every one of them set his own or Homer's epic lines
to music for singing at the Games. In the same
way Clonas, the first composer of flute-sung nomes
and the originator of processional songs, used clegiac
and epic verse. . . . The nomes of these flute-poets,
my excellent Onesicrates, were sung to the flute,
and are these... . The Ivre-sung nomes, which
were established much earlier, namely in the time

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