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In ancient Greece, a citharode was a poet-performer who sang while accompanying himself on the kithara. Famous citharodes included Terpander and Arion. Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. ... The kithara was an ancient Greek musical instrument. ... Terpander, of Antissa in Lesbos, was a Greek poet and citharode who lived about the first half of the 7th century BC. About the time of the Second Messenian War, he settled in Sparta, whither, according to some accounts, he had been summoned by command of the Delphian oracle, to... Arion on a sea horse, as pictured by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1855). ...


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