Verify Citation - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord

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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord

Verify Citation

Quoted text:

“The poets do not depict Zeus as playing the lyre and singing in person,” pointed out Aristotle[1] (1339b).

Can you find a more precise source for this quotation? We did find one that quotes this precisely, but it seemed perhaps less authoritative than this one, even though that says slightly differently: “Zeus does not sing and harp to the poets himself.”

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  1. Aristotle, Politics, Book 8, section 1339b.