Editing Terpander (section)

==Biography==
He gained a reputation as a singer and composer, but after having killed a man in a brawl, he was exiled.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Durant |first1=Will |title=The Story of Civilization: The Life of Greece |date=1966|page=75}}</ref> 

About the time of the [[Second Messenian War]], he settled in [[Sparta]], to where, according to some accounts, he had been summoned by command of the [[Delphic Oracle]] to compose the differences that had arisen between different classes in the state. Here he gained the prize in the musical contests at the festival of [[Carneia]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Terpander|volume=26|page=647}}</ref><ref>676–2 BC; [[Athenaeus]], 635 e.</ref>

He is regarded as the real founder of Greek classical music and lyric poetry, but as to his innovations in music, our information is imperfect. According to [[Strabo]],<ref>xiii. p.&nbsp;618</ref> he increased the number of strings in the lyre from four to seven; others take the fragment of Terpander on which Strabo bases his statement to mean that he developed the [[Citharede|citharoedic]] [[Nomos (music)|nomos]] (sung to the accompaniment of the [[cithara]] or [[lyre]]) by making the divisions of the ode seven instead of four. The seven-stringed lyre was probably already in existence. Terpander is also said to have introduced several new rhythms in addition to the dactylic and to have been famous as a composer of drinking-songs ([[skolion|skolia]]).<ref name="EB1911"/>

No poems attributed to Terpander survive complete, and very few lines of his are quoted by later Greek writers; it must be regarded as doubtful whether he worked in writing.

Terpander is said to have died, around [[Skiadas|Skiades]] ("shady place" of the [[Carneia]]), by choking on a [[Common fig|fig]] when the fruit was thrown in appreciation of one of his performances.<ref>{{cite book | title = Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China | url = https://archive.org/details/authorshipcultur00beec | url-access = limited | author = Alexander Beecroft | year = 2010 | page = [https://archive.org/details/authorshipcultur00beec/page/n130 120]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Palatine Anthology | author = Suda | quote = γ315;9.488| title-link = Palatine Anthology | author-link = Suda }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title =  Heads or Tails. Songs, &c. in Heads or Tails | author = Charles Dibdin  | year = 1805  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9RRXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA28  | page = 28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title =  The Guide to Knowledge | volume = I  | year = 1837 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0UAwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA312 
 | page = 312}}</ref>