Alcman
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Alcman the lyric poet
in the texts
Lycurgus
Poet named among those whose songs captive Helots were ordered to sing by their Theban captors.
And therefore in later times, they say, when the Thebans made their expedition into Laconia, they ordered the Helots whom they captured to sing the songs of Terpander, Alcman, and Spendon the Spartan;
Sulla
Lyric poet cited as a later example of a person who died of the same worm-infested disease.
We are told that in very ancient times, Acastus the son of Pelias was thus eaten of worms and died, and in later times, Alcman the lyric poet, Pherecydes the theologian, Callisthenes of Olynthus, who was kept closely imprisoned, as also Mucius the jurist;