"Ancient Greek music, for me, is a way of initiation, I would say, a meeting with the past, and through it you can also open gates to the future." ...

Not until ancient Greek philosophers began to seek scientific explanations for natural phenomena (without recourse to myths) did anybody bother to wonder how math would help. And the first of ...

A 2,400-year-old pebbled mosaic unearthed in Greece contains images of two naked men with tails dancing to music. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

The fragment on which the hymn was written preserves 35 words and the accompanying melody and rhythm in ancient Greek musical notation. It is believed to be the conclusion of a longer song.

Somehow the ancient Greeks and Romans knew this too, long before modern science was there to back it. In his oration To the People of Alexandria, the Greek writer (40-110 CE) complained about a ...

During the Byzantine Empire the Ancient Greek theory of music, together with arithmetic, geometry and astronomy, maintained the part of one of the four sciences (quadrivium). Moreover, the current ...