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Episode 45, music and victory odes. Today's episode is brought to you by our new June Patreon supporters, Raphael Deutsch and Gabriel Portos,

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And now let us turn our attention back to the ancient Greeks.

Music was almost universally present in ancient Greek society, from marriages, funerals, athletic

competitions, and religious ceremonies, to leisure activities, the theater, folk music and the ballot-like

reciting of epic poetry. There are many references to music in Greek myth, indicating that music

was an integral part of the Greek perception of how

their race had even come into existence, and how their destinies continued to be watched

over and controlled by the gods. In fact, the word music comes from the muses,

the nine daughters of Zeus and patron goddesses of creative and intellectual endeavors.

It is no wonder then that music played an integral role in the lives of ancient Greeks.

There are significant fragments of actual Greek musical notation, as well as many literary references to ancient Greek music, such that some things can be known, or at least reasonably surmised about what the music sounded like, the general role of music in society, the economics of music, the importance of a professional cast of musicians and so forth.

Even archaeological remains reveal an abundance of depictions on pottery,

for example, of music being performed.

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