Verify Citation - 11. Periodicities of Property and Debt
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Query: 11. Periodicities of Property and Debt
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Before 586 BC, wrote Fontenrose[1] (1988: p. 124), “the only Pythian contests were musical. The hymn to Apollo was sung to the accompaniment of the kithara (lyre) played by the singer; and it was said that Hesiod was not allowed to compete because he had not learned to play the kithara.”
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- ↑ Joseph Fontenrose, “The Cult of Apollo and the Games at Delphi,” in Wendy J. Raschke (ed.), The Archaeology of the Olympics (Madison, Wisconsin: 1988): p. 124.
