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	Alcman - LoveToKnow 1911
		His mastery of Greek shows that he must have come very early to Sparta, where, after the close of the Messenian wars, the people were able to bestow their attention upon the arts of peace.
		Alcman composed various kinds of poems in various metres; Parthenia (maidens' songs), hymns, paeans, prosodia (processionals), and love-songs, of which he was considered the inventor.
		The fragments are scanty, the most considerable being part of a Parthenion found in 1855 on an Egyptian papyrus; some recently discovered hexameters are attributed to Alcman or Erinna (Oxyrhynclhus papyri, i.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Alcman (120 words)

	Alcman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alcman, being the greatest living poet, was thus brought to Sparta as an official singer for public rites and festivals.
		Alcman's songs were composed in the Greek Dorian dialect of Sparta (the so-called Laconian dialect).
		The choral lyrics of Alcman were meant to be performed within the social, political, and religious context of Sparta.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alcman (1811 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Alcman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to the ancient tradition (which was perhaps a construction of Aristotle), Alcman was originally a Lydian of Sardis, who came as a slave to Sparta, where he lived in the family of Agesidas (= Hagesidamus?), by whom he was eventually emancipated because of his good skills.
		Alcman has probably composed choral songs for the boys as well, but the Hellenistic philologists seem to have been more interested in the partheneions.
		Yet, the very fact that the love was codified by a man, Alcman, and even proclaimed during the festivals of the city, is a clear indication that the romantic feelings of the girls were not tolerated silently, but promoted loudly.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Alcman (707 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 107 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The period during which most of Alcman's poems were composed, was that which followed the conclusion of the second Messenian war.
		The poems Alcman were chiefly in strophes, composed of es sometimes of the same metre throughout the •ophe, sometimes of different metres.
		Alcman's poems comprised six books, the ex tant fragments of which arc included in the col lections of Neander, H. Stephens, and Fulvius Ursinus.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0116.html (988 words)

	Alcman
		Alcman or Alcmaeon (the former being the Doric form of the name), the founder of Doric lyric poetry, to whom was assigned the first place among the nine lyric poets of Greece in the Alexandrian canon, flourished in the latter half of the 7th century BC.
		He was a Lydian of Sardis, who came as a slave to Sparta, where he lived in the family of Agesidas, by whom he was emancipated.
		The fragments are scanty, the most considerable being part of a Parthenion found in 1855 on an Egyptian papyrus; some later discovered hexameters are attributed to Alcman or Erinna[?] (Oxyrhynchus papyri, i.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alcman.html (192 words)

	A Manual of Greek Literature, page 117 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The poems of Alcman were chiefly strophes, composed of lines sometimes of the same metre throughout the strophe, sometimes of different metres.
		Muller endeavors to shield Alcman from the charge of licentiousness, but the terms in which the ancients speak of this are so strong that we can not well acquiesce in so favorable a representation of the character of his erotic poetry.2
		Alcman's poems comprised six books, the extant fragments of which are included in the collections of Neander, H. Stephens, Fulvius Ursinus, Schneidewin, and Bergk.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /greek-lit/0131.html (478 words)

	The Dialect of Alcman: History of the Language and the Text. English Summary
		The Attic drama does demonstrate some knowledge of Alcman, but it only relates to a limited selection of his poems; and indeed, the same couple of fragments are referred to until the 3rd century BC, when knowledge of Alcman increases radically.
		Alcman shares a great number of word collocations or 'junctures' with Homer, but only seldom does he echo the Homeric passages in question consciously; rather, a common word potential is realised similarly when one expresses the same or similar ideas.
		The dialect of Alcman, too, shows similar continuous updating, and the variables of the poetic language are generally pronounced according to the vernacular.
	alkman.georgehinge.com /summary.html (1376 words)

	Lesbianism in the "Partheneia" or Maiden-Songs of Alcman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lesbianism in the "Partheneia" or Maiden-Songs of Alcman
		However Alcman was rumored in ancient times to have been a native of Sparta, or a native of Lydia (in present-day Turkey), or born a slave and brought to Sparta.
		Since Alcman was a lyre player, it is possible that he was an effeminate homosexual - an ancient Greek comedy about a lyre-player describes their stereotype as mincing about in embroidered slippers, trailing his long, elaborate cloaks behind him, while daintily sipping the best wines and indulging in only the finest of cheese-breads.
	home.earthlink.net /~ekerilaz/parth.html (1094 words)

	Alcman on Ancient Sparta
		These garlands, he says, are worn in memory of the victory at Thyrea by the leaders of the choruses which dance on the festival of that victory, which coincides with the Gymnopaideiai, or 'Feast of Naked Youths'.
		Behind the Colonnade (stoa) which runs beside the grove of plane trees (Platanistan) there are shrines of Alkimas and Enarsphoros and, nearby, one of Dorceus, and adjoining this again one of Sebros, all of whom are said to have been sons of Hippocoon.
		On the right of this plot is a monument to Alcman whose poems were not made the less sweet because he used the tongue of Sparta, a dialect not too euphonious.
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/alcman.html (458 words)

	Talk:Alcman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following passage is probably better suited to the History of lesbianism article, which is in need of serious editing by someone who can both write and analyze clearly.
		As it is, the current paragraph doesn't accurately reflect the predominant content of what little of Alcman's poetry exists.
		It further confuses the purpose of the Alcman article with one devoted to current political issues regarding homosexuality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Alcman (349 words)

	HoAaH
		The language used by Alcman is mainly the doric idiom of his time, mixed with elements from the ionic and aeolian idiom.
		So, Alcman, says, the matter of all things was stirred and uncreated, then someone who arranged everything was born, then a pore was created and when this pore passed by, a bound (or end, τέκμωρ) followed.
		Conceptually, Alcman’s “pore” can be identified with the Einstein-Rosen bridge (Neeman 1965), the point singularity with the bound (τέκμωρ), and the antiparallel universe interior to which the bridge begins, with the space of the uncreated, formless and unperceivable matter.
	www.cc.uoa.gr /fasma/E_Danezis/scientific_publications/hoaah.htm (2114 words)

	Alcman
		Alcman, being the greatest living poet, was thus brought to Sparta as an official singer for public rites and festivals.
		When Alcman attempted to experiment too extravagantly in his music, his Spartan hosts "arrested" his lyre and kept it in custody until he agreed to maintain a more conventional approach to his official songs, so as not to offend the Oracle or the gods.
		Alcman's songs were composed in the Greek Dorian dialect of Sparta (the so-called Laconian dialect).
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Alcman.html (1610 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Alcman
		Thus, Alcman claims he learned his skills from the "strident partridges" (caccabides), a bird native to Asia Minor and not naturally found in Greece.
		One tradition, going back to Aristotle, holds that Alcman came to Sparta as a slave to the family of Agesidas (= Hagesidamus?), by whom he was eventually emancipated because of his great skill.
		Aristotle reported that it was believed Alcman died from a pustulent infestation of lice (phthiriasis), but it may be a mistake for the philosopher Alcmaeon.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Alcman (1681 words)

	Alcman Biography / Profile
		Traditional accounts claim that Alcman (ALK-muhn) was originally a slave in the Lydian city of Sardis before being sold and taken to Sparta.
		Alcman’s work covered a wide range of topics: marriage, love, religion, nature, and myths.
		A style of lyric meter was named after Alcman by ancients who considered his poetry difficult to understand because of his style and subject matter.
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/alcman (194 words)

	Detail Page
		A plausible later tradition says Alcman was an Ionian Greek who had immigrated from Asia Minor; he was notorious for his supposed gluttony.
		Alcman's 101-line fragment presents the final two thirds of a partheneion, a "maiden song." The fragment begins by recounting one of the adventures of the hero Heracles, then abruptly switches topic and starts praising by name the individual teenage girls who are singing the words.
		Alcman's technique of layering mythology and personal references seems to anticipate the work of the greatest Greek choral poet, Pindar (born 508
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0036 (344 words)

	Alcman: Greek lyric, choral poetry.
		Alcman's Agido is Dawn-like, as he introduces her in the poem:
		The sculpture was the agent to project the beauty which already existed in Phryne, and the people of Phryne's city believed her to be as responsible for the result of the sculpture as was Praxiteles.
		Telling of the gods would bring the gods to the performance as well as suit the occasion of the ritual, telling of Agido and Hagesichora and their companions in the chorus would allow these women to partake in a proximity to the gods.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~artsfx/alcman.html (1425 words)

	Probably it happened one day that Alcman has had an interesting journey in Kastoria . Alcman ponder Kastoria to be ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Probably it happened one day that Alcman has had an interesting journey in Kastoria.
		Alcman ponder Kastoria to be something very interesting to visit.
		Surely it is not true blessedness to be free from sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the worlds; sorrow is then a part of love, and love does not seek to throw it off.
	www.bad-bad-bad.com /poets/Poy20178.htm (292 words)

	Alcman or Alcmaeon the former being the Doric Doric form... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alcman or Alcmaeon the former being the Doric Doric form...
		"Alcman" or "Alcmaeon" (the former being the Doric Doric form of the name), the founder of Doric lyric lyric poetry poetry, to whom was assigned the first place among the nine lyric poets of Greece in the Alexandria Alexandrian canon, flourished in the latter half of the 7th century BC 7th century BC.
		He was a Lydia Lydian of Sardis Sardis, who came as a slave slave to Sparta Sparta, where he lived in the family of Agesidas, by whom he was emancipated.
	www.biodatabase.de /Alcman (282 words)

	Sappho, Poems Background 1
		In the Alcman fragment there are ten, and on a red-figure vase of the late archaic period, there are eleven total (including the musician) Link here to see a transcript of one side of the vase.
		On some vases, like the one just cited, a chorus-leader or choregus appears; sometimes she is identical with the musician, but other times both a musician and a choregus are shown.
		This is Alcman fragment 26 as reconstructed by Petros Tabouris, with the Greek transliterated on one side and a translation alongside.
	mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /wescourses/2003s/cciv110/01/draft/BackgroundTemp/background.sappho1.html (2368 words)

	Alcman, Greece, ancient history
		He wrote hymns and lyrics for choirs in the Doric dialect, and was said to have conducted the choirs himself, both vocally and the dance steps the choir took.
		Not much has survived by Alcman, but the oldest hymn in the western world is attributed to him.
		The choir tells the story of various criminals and their punishments in the myths, and they race and joke with the rival choir.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/history/ancient/alcman.htm (136 words)

	cciv243.Parker.html
		Alcman is a man, hired by the community, to provide choral songs, on civic occasions, for choruses composed of young women and of young men, to whom he evidences no individual erotic emotions.
		Alcman was the "teacher" of his choral verses to the sons and daughters of Sparta, yet no one has ever suggested that he ran a "school" there.
		Alcman and Pindar have a precise social role: it is not "teacher," not even "chorus teacher," it is "poet." These kind of suggestions are never made about any male poet, only about Sappho.
	mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /Images2/cciv243.Parker.html (9092 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alcman (also Alkman, Greek) (7th century BC) was an Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta.
		The name of Alcman's mother is not known but his father may have been named either Damas or Titarus.Suda, s.v.
		Frequently assumed to have been born in Sardis, capital of ancient Lydia, the Suda claims that Alcman was actually a Laconian from Messoa.Suda, s.v.
	www.maxpedia.org /cgi-bin/mp/m.pl?la=en&sw=Alcman (371 words)

	Maybe one day it happened that Alcman has made an interesting trip in Piraeus . Alcman considered Piraeus to be one of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Maybe one day it happened that Alcman has made an interesting trip in Piraeus.
		Alcman considered Piraeus to be one of the most beautiful places in the world.
		There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love the first fluttering of its silken wings the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or destroy.
	www.bad-bad-bad.com /poets/Poy20064.htm (308 words)

	Chapter 12
		It seems then that the two characters of two choral leaders in Alcman PMG 1, Agido and Hagesikhora, are acting out, on the level of the ritual presented by the chorus, the roles of the two Leukippides, who are cult figures that exist on the level of myth.
		There is a striking semantic parallel in the case of the choral leader Astumeloisa at Alcman PMG 3 (64, 73), where this generic name is actually translated in the song itself (74) as melêma damôi 'an object of care and affection [melêma] to the local community [dêmos]'--which is exactly what the name means.
		In a composition like Alcman PMG 1, the figures of the choral leaders Agido and Hagesikhora may not necessarily have a speaking part, that is, singing part, in the song (to be contrasted with the reference at line 99 to singing by an ensemble of ten).
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/nagy/PHTL/chapter12.html (13261 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 106 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The above statements seem to be more in accordance with the authorities than the opinion of Bode, that Alcman's father was brought from Sardis to Sparta as a slave, and that Alcman himself was born at Messoa.
		The time at which Alcman lived is rendered somewhat doubtful by the different statements of the Greek and Armenian copies of Eusebius, and of the chroriographers who followed him.
		On the whole, however, the Greek copy of Eusebius appears to be right in placing him at the second year of the twenty-seventh Olympiad.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0115.html (851 words)

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