Timotheus
Timotheus tĭmō´thēəs [key], c.450–c.357 BC, Greek poet and musician of Miletus. An innovator in music, he added a string to the kithara. Fragments of his dithyrambs and nomes remain. Euripides wrote the prologue for his Persae, a lyric nome.
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