# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/terpander
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:33:50.759Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/terpander"
name: "Terpander"
slug: "terpander"
description: "Terpander, 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. Though endowed with an inventive mind, and the commencer of a new era of music, he attempted no more than to systematize the musical styles that existed in the music of Greece and Anatolia. Terpander is perhaps the earliest historically certain figure in the music of Ancient Greece."
tagline: "7th-century BC Greek poet"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Pittore_del_maiale%2C_cratere_a_colonne_con_uomo_che_vomita_e_fanciullo_con_cetra%2C_attica_470-460_ac_ca._01.jpg/330px-Pittore_del_maiale%2C_cratere_a_colonne_con_uomo_che_vomita_e_fanciullo_con_cetra%2C_attica_470-460_ac_ca._01.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-712"
deathDate: "-645"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.69463866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%B9%E5%B0%94%E6%BD%98%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "特尔潘德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandre"
    title: "Terpandre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandros_z_Lesbu"
    title: "Terpandros z Lesbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandros"
    title: "Terpandros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%AD%CF%81%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Τέρπανδρος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpander"
    title: "Terpander"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandro"
    title: "Terpandro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "ترپاندر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandros"
    title: "Terpandros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandre"
    title: "Terpandre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandro"
    title: "Terpandro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandrosz"
    title: "Terpandrosz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8F%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BA%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A4%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%BD"
    title: "Տերպանդրոս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandros"
    title: "Terpandros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandro"
    title: "Terpandro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpander"
    title: "Terpander"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandros"
    title: "Terpandros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandros"
    title: "Terpandros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpander_z_Antissy"
    title: "Terpander z Antissy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandro"
    title: "Terpandro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80"
    title: "Терпандр"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpandros"
    title: "Terpandros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpander"
    title: "Terpander"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80"
    title: "Терпандр"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113417"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump