The musical system of ancient Greece evolved over a period of more than 500 years from simple scales of tetrachords, or divisions of the perfect fourth...

This played an integral role in the lives of ancient Greeks. There are some fragments of actual Greek musical notation, many literary references, depictions...

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Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th...

In the musical system of ancient Greece, genus (Greek: γένος [genos], pl. γένη [genē], Latin: genus, pl. genera "type, kind") is a term used to describe...

In the musical system of ancient Greece, an octave species (εἶδος τοῦ διὰ πασῶν, or σχῆμα τοῦ διὰ πασῶν) is a specific sequence of intervals within an...

Ancient music refers to the musical cultures and practices that developed in the literate civilizations of the ancient world prior to the early medieval...

Hellenistic period of Ancient Greece, education in a gymn school was considered essential for participation in Greek culture. The value of physical education...

(Ancient Greek: Βακχεῖος), also known as Baccheius the Elder or Baccheius Senior or Baccheius Geron (ὁ γέρων), was a writer on the musical system of ancient...

Terpander (Ancient Greek: Τέρπανδρος Terpandros), of Antissa in Lesbos, was a Greek poet and citharede who lived about the first half of the 7th century...

Greek musical instruments were grouped under the general term "all developments from the original construction of a tortoise shell with two branching...

durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded...

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underlying Ancient Greek etymology. Monotonic orthography (from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) 'single' and τόνος (tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Modern...

Ancient Greek mathematics refers to the history of mathematical ideas and texts in Ancient Greece during classical and late antiquity, mostly from the...

characteristics of ancient and modern-day women in Greece evolved from events that occurred in Greek history. In Michael Scott's article, "The Rise of Women in...

Greek (Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká, [eliniˈka] ; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ, [helːɛːnikɛ́ː]) is an Indo-European language...

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Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music. Systems of notation generally represent the elements of a piece of music that are considered...

Haliacmon and lower Axios in the northeastern part of mainland Greece. Essentially an ancient Greek people, they gradually expanded from their homeland...

They developed crafts such as musical instruments, sculptures, pottery, etc. Much of Ancient Greek craftsmanship was part of the domestic sphere. However...

The prizes for the victors were wreaths of laurel leaves. Other important sporting events in ancient Greece included the Isthmian Games, the Nemean Games...

The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods: the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic...

sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek...

philosophy, ethics and music, have been lost, but one musical treatise, Elements of Harmony (Greek: Ἁρμονικὰ στοιχεῖα; Latin: Elementa harmonica), survives...

Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and...

extended the concept of mode to earlier musical systems, such as those of Ancient Greek music, Jewish cantillation, and the Byzantine system of octoechoi, as...

Games, Western philosophy, ancient Greek law, Greek mythology, Greek food and the Greek Alphabet. The following is a list of inventions, innovations or...

their pursuit of order and proportion, the Greeks created an ideal of beauty that strongly influenced Western art. The first great ancient Greek civilization...