Lasus

Lāsus (b. c.548 BC), of Hermionē in Argolis, an early Greek lyric poet, celebrated as the founder of the Athenian school of dithyrambic poetry (he is said to have instituted dithyrambic contests) and as the teacher of Pindar. He was a contemporary of Simonides, and like him he lived at Athens under the patronage of Hipparchus (brother of Hippias the tyrant). According to Herodotus he revealed Onomacritus as the forger of oracles supposedly by Musaeus. Virtually nothing of his poetry survives.

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Lasus of Hermione was a Greek lyric poet of the 6th century BC. He is known to have been active at Athens under the reign of the Peisistratids. Pseudo-Plutarch's De Musica credits him with innovations in the dithyramb hymn. According to Herodotus, Lasus also exposed Onomacritus's forgeries of the oracles of Musaeus.

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