Verify Citation - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Athenaeus[1] (XII.3–41) reported that “To such a point had they carried their luxurious refinement that they had even trained their horses to dance at their feasts to the accompaniment of pipes. Now the people of Croton knew this when they made war on the Sybarites, as Aristotle records in his account of their Constitution.” Apparently some Sybarite had insulted (probably made unwelcome advances on) one of the flute-players, who resolved to avenge the insult by playing the tune to the Crotonites. At a signal in the battle all the Crotonite pipers played the melody to which the horses were accustomed, whereupon they rose on their hind legs, throwing off their riders, and so caused an easy victory for Croton.
This last is the editor’s summary from Julius Africanus, Cesti 293. Athenaeus says simply, the Crotonites “struck up the dance tune for the horses; for they had with them pipers in military uniform.”[2]Can you help us find the text for a full citation of Julius Africanus, Cesti, 293? All we found was this source, which does not seem correct or contain the quotation we’re having trouble finding the opening for.
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- ↑ Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists: Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus, C.D. Yonge (tr.), Vol. 3 (London: 1854), via Tufts University’s Perseus Digital Library Project, Book XII, Chapter 1.
- ↑ Donald Freeman Brown, “In Search of Sybaris,” Expedition Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2 (January 1963), https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/in-search-of-sybaris/.
