Terpander

Zeus, the beginning of all, the leader of all; Zeus, to thee I bring this gift for a beginning of hymns.

Terpander (Ancient Greek: Τέρπανδρος; fl. c. first half of the 7th century BC) was a Greek poet and citharede from Antissa in Lesbos.

Quotes

• Zeus, the beginning of all, the leader of all; Zeus, to thee I bring this gift for a beginning of hymns.
  • 1. To Zeus (tr. J. M. Edmonds, 1922)

• Let us pour to the Daughters of Memory and their Lord the Son of Leto.
  • 3. To Apollo and the Muses (tr. Edmonds)

• Where bloom both the spear of the young men and the clear sweet Muse, and eke that aider unto noble deeds, Justice that goeth in broad streets.
  • 6. Sparta (tr. Edmonds)

Quotes about Terpander

• Terpander. . .was the first person that used the lyre with seven instead of four strings, as is mentioned in the verses attributed to him: "we have relinquished the song adapted to four strings, and shall cause new hymns to resound on a seven-stringed cithara."
  • Strabo, Geography, III.2.4 (tr. H. C. Hamilton, 1856)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Terpander on Wikipedia