Terpander

Terpander

Terpander (Greek: Τέρπανδρος Terpandros), of Antissa in Lesbos, was a Greek poet and citharede who lived about the first half of the 7th century BC. He was the father of Greek music and through it, of lyric poetry, although his own poetical compositions were few and in extremely simple rhythms. He simplified rules of the modes of singing of other neighboring countries and islands and formed, out of these syncopated variants, a conceptual system. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Terpander has received more than 30,781 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Terpander is the 1,366th most popular writer (up from 1,394th in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from Greece (down from 292nd in 2019) and the 37th most popular Greek Writer.