Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Abbreviations xix
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction 1Eleonora Rocconi and Tosca A.C. Lynch
Part I Mythical Paradigms 11
1 The Mythology of the Muses 13Penelope Murray
2 Apollo and Music 25Ian Rutherford
3 Dionysus and the Ambiguity of Orgiastic Music 37Giorgio Ieranò
4 Pan and the Music of Nature 49Pauline LeVen
5 Musical Heroes 61
Susanna Sarti
6 Musical Metamorphoses in the Roman World 75
Luigi Galasso
Part II Contexts and Practices 87
7 Ancient Musical Performance in Context: Places, Settings, and Occasions 89Sylvain Perrot
8 Documenting Music 103Maria Chiara Martinelli
9 Visualizing Music 117Sheramy D. Bundrick
10 Music in Classical Greek Drama 131Marco Ercoles
11 Music in Roman Drama 145Timothy J. Moore
12 Ancient Greek Choreia 161Naomi A. Weiss
13 Roman Dance 173Zoa Alonso Fernández
14 Musical Competitors and Competitions in Greece and Rome 187Timothy Power
15 The Vocal Art in Greek and Roman Antiquity 201Konstantinos Melidis
16 Musical Instruments of Greek and Roman Antiquity 213Chres̄tos Terzes̄
17 Ancient Greek Music and the Near East 229John C. Franklin
Part III Conceptualizing Music: Musical Theory and Thought 243
18 Acoustics 245Egert Pöhlmann
19 Harmonics 257Andrew Barker
20 Rhythmics 275Tosca A.C. Lynch
21 Notation 297Stefan Hagel
22 Music in Greek and Roman Education 311Massimo Raffa
23 Musical Aesthetics 323Eleonora Rocconi
24 Music and Emotions 337Francesco Pelosi
25 Music and Medicine 351Antonietta Provenza
26 The Music of the Words in Roman Rhetoric 365Verena Schulz
Part IV Music and Society: Musical Identities, Ideology, and Politics 379
27 Between Local and Global: Music and Cultural Identity in Ancient Greece 381Mark Griffith
28 Music and Gender in Greek and Roman Culture: Female Performers and Composers 397Mariella De Simone
29 “Old” and “New” Music: The Ideology of Mousikē 409Armand D’Angour
30 The Politics of Theater Music in Fifth‐ and Fourth‐Century Greece 421Eric Csapo and Peter Wilson
31 Music, Power, and Propaganda in Julio‐Claudian Imperial Rome (27 BC–68 AD) 435Paola Dessì
Part V Rediscovering Ancient Music: The Cultural Heritage of Mousike ̄ 447
32 The Reception of Greek Music Theory in the Middle Ages: Boethius and the Portraits of Ancient Musicians 449Cecilia Panti
33 Ancient Greek Music in Early Modern Italy: Performance and Self‐Representation 461Donatella Restani
34 The Visual Heritage: Images of Ancient Music before and after the Rediscovery of Pompeii 473Daniela Castaldo
Appendix
Diagrams of the Ancient Modes (Harmoniai) as Aulos and Lyre Tunings 489Tosca A.C. Lynch
General Index 497