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Greek lyric poet, of Hermione in Argolis, flourished about 510 B.C. A member of the See also:literary and See also:artistic circle of the Peisistratidae, he was the instructor of See also:Pindar in See also:music and See also:poetry and the See also:rival of See also:Simonides. The dithyramb (of which he was sometimes considered the actual inventor) was See also:developed by him, by the aid of various changes in music and See also:rhythm, into an artistically constructed choral See also:song, with an See also:accompaniment of several flutes. It became more artificial and mimetic in See also:character, and its range of subjects was no longer confined to the adventures of See also:Dionysus. Lasus further increased its popularity by introducing See also:prize contests for the best poem of the See also:kind. His over-refinement is shown by his avoidance of the See also:letter sigma (on See also:account of its hissing See also:sound) in several of his poems, of one of which (a hymn to See also:Demeter of Hermione) a few lines have been preserved in See also:Athenaeus (xiv. 624 E). Lasus was also the author of the first theoretical See also:treatise on music. See Suidas s.v.; See also:Aristophanes, Wasps, 141o, Birds, 1403 and schol.; See also:Plutarch, De Musica, See also:xxix.; See also:Muller and See also:Donaldson, Hist. of Greek Literature, i. 284; G. H. See also:Bode, Geschichte der hellenischen Dichtkunst, ii. pt.

2, p. 111; F. W. See also:

Schneidewin, De Laso Hermibnensi Comment. (See also:Gottingen, 1842) ; Fragm. in See also:Bergk, Poet. Lyr.

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