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Headword: 
*qalh/tas 
Adler number: theta,21
Translated headword: Thaletas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: of Crete, or 
Illyria;[1] a lyric poet; lived before 
Homer. [He wrote] songs.
*qalh/tas, *krh/s, h)\ *)illurio/s, luriko/s, gegonw\s pro\ *(omh/rou. me/lh. 
Notes: 
OCD(4) s.v. 
Strabo 10.4.19 gives the name as 
Thales, but Thaletas (in e.g. [
Plutarch], 
de musica passim) seems the more authentic version.
[1] cf. 
theta 22, where (presumably) this same Thaletas is said to come 'from 
Knossos' (in Crete). In the present entry 
Illyrios has been conjectured to be an error for 
Elyrios, i.e. from Cretan Elyros; if so, as Bernhardy noted, one would then delete 'or'.
M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) index s.v.
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; meter and music; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 November 2005@07:37:53.
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