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Alcman (also Alkman, Greek Ἀλκμάν) (7th century BC) was an Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta. He is the earliest representative of the Alexandrinian canon of the ...
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Alcman (lived 7th century BC) Greek lyric poet. He composed choral works for Spartan festivals, especially songs to be sung by two choirs of girls.
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Alcman (ălk`mən), 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 ...

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Alcman (fl. about 625 bc), Greek poet, who was one of the earliest of the famous lyric poets and the first known to write choral lyrics in strophic form, also called a choral ode. He was born in Sardis, in Lydia. According to tradition, Alcman was a slave who was freed and made a citizen of Sparta. He wrote, in the Doric dialect, Parthenia (songs for choruses of virgins), bridal hymns, and verses in praise of love and wine. Only fragments of his poems are extant.