Alcman

• Alcman of Sparta was a choral lyric poet from Ancient Greece in the 7th century BCE.
• He was one of the Nine Lyric Poets.

Nine Lyric Poets

• The Nine Lyric Poets were a group of canonical Greek Poets who wrote between the 7-5th centuries BCE.
• They were considered by the Greek Alexandrian Scholars to be founders of the Lyric song.