See also:

• ALCMAN, or ALCMAEON (the former being the Doric form of the name)

ALCMAN, or See also:

• ALCMAEON

ALCMAEON (the former being the Doric See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the name)  , the founder of Doric lyric See also:

• POETRY

poetry, to whom was assigned the first See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place among the nine lyric poets of See also:

• GREECE

Greece in the Alexandrian See also:

• CANON

canon, flourished in the latter See also:

• HALF

half of the 7th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C . He was a Lydian of See also:

• SARDIS

Sardis, who came as a slave to See also:

• SPARTA (Gr. Eirapril or AaKe5atycav)

Sparta, where he lived in the See also:

• FAMILY

family of Agesidas, by whom he was emancipated . His mastery of See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek shows that he must have come very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early to Sparta, where, after the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the Messenian See also:

• WARS

wars, the See also:

• PEOPLE

people were able to bestow their See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention upon the 'arts of See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace . See also:

• ALCMAN, or ALCMAEON (the former being the Doric form of the name)

Alcman composed various kinds of poems in various metres; Parthenia (maidens' songs), See also:

• HYMNS

hymns, paeans, prosodia (processionals), and love-songs, of which he was considered the inventor . He was evidently fond of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good living, and traces of See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic sensuousness seem out of place amidst Spartan simplicity . The fragments are scanty, the most considerable being paxt of a See also:

• PARTHENON (HapOevwv)

Parthenon found in 1855 on an See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian See also:

• PAPYRUS

papyrus; some recently discovered hexameters are attributed to Alcman or See also:

• ERINNA

Erinna (Oxyrhynchus papyri, i . 1898) . For See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general authorities see See also:

• ALCAEUS (Ar earos)

ALcAEUS .