Lamprus
Λάμπρος
(Λάμπρος).
1. A teacher of music at Athens in the youth of Socrates, who is made by Plato to mention him with a sort of ironical praise, as second only to Connus. (Menex. p. 236; comp. Ath. x. p. 506f.) We learn from other sources that he was very celebrated as a musician. (Ath. ii. p. 44d.; Plut. de Mus. 31, p. 1142; Nepos, Epam. 2.) He is said to have been the teacher of Sophocles in music and dancing. (Ath. i. p.20, f.; Vit. Soph.) This statement, and the reference to his death by Phrynichus (ap. Ath. ii. p. 44d.), fix his time to the former part of the fifth century B. C.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.