Ancient Greek musicians

Greek lyric poet (c. 556–468 BC)

thumb|A citharede Terpander ( Terpandros), 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 exis

Greek harpist and poet (c. 446 – 357 BC)

6th-century BC Greek lyric poet

Thaletas or Thales of Crete (Greek: Θαλῆς or Θαλήτας) was an early Greek musician and lyric poet.

Cynaethus or Cinaethus ( or Κίναιθος) of Chios was a rhapsode, a member of the Homeridae, sometimes said to have composed the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.

wife of Mithridates VI

Melanippides of Melos (), one of the most celebrated lyric poets in the use of dithyramb, and an exponent of the "new music."

ancient Greek musician

ancient trumpet-player

ancient Greek musician

thumb|Representation of the poet at work. Phrynnis or Phrynis ( or ) of Mytilene was a celebrated dithyrambic poet of ancient Greece, who lived roughly around the time of the Peloponnesian War. His career began no later than 446 BCE.

famously witty 4th-century BCE kithara player