ancient Greek music

Greek vocalist Betty Harlafti performed the world's oldest complete surviving song at the ruins of an ancient Greek temple in Miletus, Asia Minor.

For Pythagoras, mathematics was not an abstract invention but a sacred language revealing the hidden order of the cosmos, from which arose one of antiquity’s most enduring and poetic theories: the harmony of the spheres, or musica universalis. Ancient Greek...

More than two thousand years after ancient Greek and Roman music, a researcher has taken a major step toward revealing their exact tuning and intonation during ceremonies, plays, and feasts of the classical world. Dan C. Baciu of Münster...

For the people of ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls. They perceived the disciplines as parts of a whole. For them, music was the "art of the sounds." Great philosophers such as...

For the Ancient Greeks, music was far more than mere entertainment—it was a means of harmonizing the human soul with the divine. Across bustling agoras, the battlefields of the ancient world, and the healing sanctuaries of Asklepios, melodies and...

In the rich tapestry of Greek mythology, few stories intertwine divine lineage, human suffering, and heroic ingenuity as seamlessly as the ancient tale of Amphion and Zethus, the builders of Thebes' walls. These twins, born of Greek god Zeus...

Did Plato hide a secret code in his writings? Dr. Jay Kennedy, a historian and a member of the University of Manchester’s Faculty of Life Sciences, recently published a scholarly work parsing the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato's writing, discovering...

Rap has been popular in music since the late 1970s. However, the concept predates the contemporary genre by thousands of years. Rhapsodies in ancient Greece were a form of rhythmic storytelling. Like rap, ancient performers used rhythm, memorization, and improvisation. Oral...

Music was ubiquitous in ancient Greece, but somewhere along the line, the way in which it was composed and sounded during its time was lost.

An event celebrating ancient Greek music, which was organized by the Australian Archaeological Institute, took place recently in Athens, at the Athens Hostel. The Australian Archeological institute, founded in 1980 in Athens, seeks to promote the participation of Australians in...