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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Phalanthus (search)
Phalanthus （*Fa/lanqos), a Lacedaemonian, son of Aracus, was the founder of Tarentum about B. C. 708. The legend, as collected from Justin, and from Antiochus and Ephorus in Strabo, is as follows. When the Lacedaemonians set forth on their first Messenian war, they bound themselves by an oath not to return home till they had brought the contest to a successful issue. But nine years passed away, and in the tenth wives sent to complain of their state of widowhood, and to point out, as its consequence, that their country would have no new generation of citizens to defend it. By the advice therefore of Aracus, the young men, who had grown up since the beginning of the war, and had never taken the oath, were sent home to become fathers of children by the Spartan virgins; and those who were thus born were called *Parqeni/ai (sons of the maidens). According to Theopompus (ap. Ath. vi. p. 271e, d ; wives to Helots; and, though this statement more probably refers to the second war, it seems l
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Terpander (search)
icus, already referred to, is rendered some-what indefinite by the, at least partly, mythological character of Midas; but, if the date has any historical value at all, it would place Terpander at least as high as Ol. 20, B. C. 700, the date of the death of Midas, according to Eusebius. confirmed by Herodotus (1.14), who makes Midas a little older than Gyges. To the same effect is the testimony of the Lydian historian Xanthus, who lived before Hellanicus, and who placed Terpander at Ol. 18, B. C. 708 (Clem. Alex. Strom. vol. i. p. 398, Potter). Glaucus of Rhegium also, who lived not long after Hellanicus, stated that Terpander was older than Archilochus, and that he came next after those who first composed aulodic music, meaning perhaps Olympus and Clonas; and Plutarch, who quotes this statement (de Mus. iv. p. 1132e.) introduces it with the remark, kai\ toi=s xro/nois de\ sfo/dra palaio/s e)sti, and presently afterwards (5, p. 1133a) he adds, as a general historical tradition (paradi/