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Arnaean,[1] or Lesbian from Antissa,[2] or Cumaean.[3] Some have recorded him as a descendant of Hesiod, others of Homer -- saying that he was the son of Boios, [who was] the son of Phokeus, [who was] the son of Euryphon, [who was] the son of Homer. Lyric poet, who first made the lyre of seven strings and first wrote lyric nomes -- though some wish [to believe] that Philammon wrote them.[4]

Terpandros, Arnaios, ê Lesbios apo Antissês, ê Kumaios: hoi de kai apogonon Hêsiodou anegrapsan, alloi de Homêrou, Boiou legontes auton tou Phôkeôs, tou Euruphôntos, tou Homêrou: lurikos: hos prôtos hepta chordôn epoiêse tên luran kai nomous lurikous prôtos egrapsen: ei kai tines Philammôna thelousi gegraphenai.

Terpander, a C7 BC lyric poet of Lesbian origin but active at Sparta, is credited with inventing the 7-stringed lyre and creating the canon of the 7 citharodic nomes. Some fragments of poetry are attributed to him, but their genuineness is doubtful.
See generally Eveline Krummen in OCD(4) s.v.
[1] That is, from Arne, in Boiotia: alpha 3985.
[2] So e.g. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Antissa.
[3] That is, from Kyme, in Aiolis (Asia Minor).
[4] For this Philammon, see phi 300 (and Pausanias 10.7.2).

D.A. Campbell, Greek Lyric, ii (Loeb: Cambridge Mass. 1988) 294ff
M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 329-330 and index s.v.

David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and bibliography) on 21 May 2001@06:46:10.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 24 March 2010@07:10:33.
David Whitehead (another x-ref; another keyword; tweaks) on 12 August 2011@09:02:45.
David Whitehead on 2 August 2014@11:19:48.

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