ALCMAN

ălkˈmən, fl. 620 b.c., Greek lyric poet of Sparta. He was the earliest writer of Dorian choral poetry whose work has survived. Short choral fragments and a longer one (part of a parthenion or choir song for girls) are extant. His verse, simple, clear, and musical, was often sung at festivals.

See his Partheneion (ed. by D. L. Page, 1951); Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman (tr. by G. Davenport, 1980).

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Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides
Book by C. M. Bowra; Clarendon Press, 1936
Subjects: Greek Poetry--History And Criticism, Poets, Greek
II. ALCMAN OUT of the wilderness of names and dates...suddenly a man, and a poet, emerges. Alcman is the first choral poet of Greece of whose...that the ancient chronographers placed Alcman in the seventh century. Whether we place...
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Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role, and Social Function
Book by Claude Calame, Derek Collins, Janice Orion; Rowman & Littlefield, 1997
...sparse, fragment of a commentary on Alcman, the word , education, appears. 73. The use of this word with regard to Alcman is probably a way of confirming that...refers to the poets situation. 75. Alcman, feeling the burden of age, can...
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From Polis to Empire, the Ancient World, C. 800 B.C.-A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Andrew G. Traver; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: History, Ancient--Dictionaries
...to the Alexandrians , 1993. Michael Anderson ALCMAN (fl. 651-611 B.C.) Alcman was a lyric poet active in Sparta perhaps in the...legendary *Lycurgus. Tradition records that Alcman was born in Lydia (Asia Minor) and brought to...
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Canons and Wisdoms
Book by Albert Cook; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993
Subjects: Canon (Literature), Literature--Aesthetics, Poetry--History And Criticism, Wisdom In Literature
...imitation and partial translation of a poem by Alcman which so far as we know may itself be...say that Goethe has either understood Alcman or misunderstood him. He has merely transposed...adding the treetops. And the poem of Alcman will retain its force even in the face...
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Dialect in Aristophanes and the Politics of Language in Ancient Greek Literature
Book by Stephen Colvin; Clarendon Press, 1999
Subjects: Aristophanes--Language, Drama--Technique, Greek Drama (Comedy)--History And Criticism, Greek Language--Dialects, Greek Language--Political Aspects--Greece, Language And Culture--Greece, Rhetoric, Ancient
...language he concludes that Aristophanes used Alcman as a source and model for his representation...influenced to a certain extent by the text of Alcman we have seen that he uses rhythms characteristic of Alcman in these passages , it is likely that the...
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Celebrating the Past: Horace's Odes as Aide Memoire
Journal article by S. Thom; Akroterion, 2008
Subjects: Greek poets--Criticism and interpretation, Greek poets--Works, Horace--Criticism and interpretation, Horace--Works, Mnemonics--Methods, Odes (Horace) (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation
...the after. Each metre is based on patterns created by or associated with Greek poets like Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilochus, Alcman, Asclepiades. The metres used by these and other Greek poets are distinct, memorable--and therefore easy to recognise...
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Mythologiae
Journal article by Patrick Hunt; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Mythologiae, 2 vols. (Book)--Book reviews
...favorites: Virgil, Homer, Plato, Cicero, Ovid, Plutarch, and Pausanias. His many classical sources include Hesiod, Alcman, Pindar, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Menander, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Aratus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Theocritus...
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Ugo Foscolo's Europe: a Journey from the Sublime to Romantic Humor
Journal article by Gustavo Costa; Symposium, Vol. 47, 1993
Subjects: Philology, Modern
...greatest; and no words can do it justice." The second text quoted by Plutarch is Alexander Aetoluss epigram, in which the poet Alcman expressed his satisfaction at having left Lydia, his native country, in order to become a citizen of Sparta. 11 Foscolo did...
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Vision, Metamorphosis, and the Poetics of Allegory in the Mutabilitie Cantos
Journal article by Louise Gilbert Freeman; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 45, 2005
Subjects: English poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Mutabilitie Cantos (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Spenser, Edmund--Criticism and interpretation
...Press, 1970, p. 151). C. M. Bowra disputes the traditionally literal reading of this version in Greek Lyric Poetry, from Alcman to Simonides, 2d rev. edn. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), pp. 99-101. See also the illustration of this on metope...


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Tutsis with a Twist; Dance Craze: The African Tribesmen Who Appeared in the Film King Solomon's Mines
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 9, 2007
...toovercome it. There died of this disease, amongst those of the most ancient times, Acastus,the son of Pelias; of later date, Alcman the poet, Pherecydes the theologian,Callisthenes the Olynthian, in the time of his imprisonment. The lousinessis usually...


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encyclopedia articles on: Alcman  - 3 results

 
 
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Alcman
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALCMAN alk m n, fl. 620 b.c., Greek lyric poet of Sparta. He was the earliest writer of Dorian choral poetry whose work has survived...
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Greek Literature, Ancient
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Anacreon . The Dorian lyric for choral performance, developed with Alcman , Ibycus , and Stesichorus , achieved perfection in Pindar...Literature (1960); C. M. Bowra, Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides (rev. ed. 1961); H. J. Rose, A Handbook...
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Sparta
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Messenian subjects. In the 7th cent. b.c. Sparta enjoyed a period of wealth and culture, the time of the poets Tyrtaeus and Alcman. After 600 b.c., however, Sparta cultivated only the military arts, and the city became an armed camp, established...


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