chapter five
MUSIC

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Musical Instruments … 189
Music in Greek Life … 198
Music Education … 210
Music in Roman Life … 212
Women in Ancient Music … 216
Music Theory … 219

Aristoxenus … 228
Pindar … 229
Claudius Ptolemy … 230
Pythagoras … 230
Sappho … 231

SIDEBARS AND PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Primary sources are listed in italics
A Pipers' Strike in Ancient Rome (Livy describes the inventive solution to a tibicine pipers' strike) … 195
Odysseus Praises Song (in The Odyssey, Odysseus praises the songs of Demodokos) … 200
The Invention of the Lyre (Hermes creates the lyre from a tortoise shell) … 202
Saved for the Sake of Euripides' Hymns (Plutarch recalls how Athenian prisoners were saved by Euripides' songs) … 205
Orestes (Euripides' text is one of the earliest examples of ancient Greek music) … 206
Plato on Musical Innovation (Plato describes the music that is beneficial to moral education) … 208
Grave Stele of Seikilos (tombstone's text includes patterns of composition described by later theorists) … 209
Domitian and the Festival for Capitoline Jupiter (Suetonius discusses a festival of music founded by Domitian) … 215
Just One of the Girls (Plutarch describes Clodius' plan to dress like a female lyre player) … 217
Helen's Ritual Lament (Euripides portrays the musical power of the ritual lament) … 219
Criticizing the Harmonikoi (Aristoxenus argues that music must be judged empirically, by the senses) … 220
Aristotle on Music (Aristotle discusses the influence of music on the soul) … 221
Alypian Notation Tables (examples of Greek musical notation) … 222