ALCMAN on Sparta The Suda Lexicon, s.v. Alcman: A Laconian of Messoa, wrongly called by Crates a Lydian of Sardis. A lyric poet, the son of Damas, or (according to some authorities) of Titaros. he flourished in the 37th Olympiad (632-629), when Ardys father of Alyattes was king of Lydia. He was of an extremely amorous disposition and the inventor of love-poems, but by birth a slave. He wrote six ...

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