ALCMAN

101

Plutarch Πα χη of Mrradetws: And yet among the
ancient men of letters meither Homer, nor Hesiod, nor
Arehilochus, nor Peisander, nor Stesichorus, nor Aleman, nor
Pindar, knew anything of an Meyptian or Phoenivian Heracles,
but all know this one Heracles who was both of Boeotia and
of Argos.

102

Tzetzes on the Jéivad: Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, and the
Stoies, know of a distinction between d@aemones or ‘spirits’
and herees or ‘demigods* . . . but Orpheus, Homer, Hesiod,
Aleman the lyrist, and the other poets sometimes distinguish
them and sometimes not.

103

Fustathius on the Z7éu?: The ancients explain that the
sons of Heaven were Acmonidae or ‘sons of Acmon,’ and
Aleman is said to tell us that Acmon is Heaven.1

104

Athenaeus Loetors ut Inner [on the Phrygian ‘ mode’):
This mode was first invented and practised by the Phrygians,
and that is why flute-players in Greece have Phrygian names
like those of slaves. for instance Sambas, and Adon, and
Telus, in Aleman.

105

Scholiast on the Z//ad7 [Son of Laomedon}: Priam’s mother.
as we are told by Porphyrius in his book On the Names
omitted iy Homer, was according to the lyric poet Aleman
Zeuxippe, but according to Hellanicus Strymo.

106

Plutarch Music: Polymnastus is mentioned by the lyric
poets Pindar and Aleman.

1 Some make Acmon father of Heaven