Plato is one of the most important sources for understanding one of the ways the Ancient Greeks viewed music. As with any era in history, people from different backgrounds have diverse opinions on important parts of a society, such as music. Plato’s ideas about music, however, have proven to be particularly lasting and influential and […]

Music meant something different to the Ancient Greeks than it means to us today. It was not simply sound or performance on an instrument; it was, in addition, an entire artistic collection of song, poetry, and dance. Music also sounded very different to the Ancient Greeks than it does today. Their system of organizing pitches, […]