Verify Citation - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Athenaeus (XIV.632) pointed out that Demetrius of Byzantium (On Poetry, IV) noted that the Greeks “used to employ the term choregi, not, as today, of the men who hired the choruses, but of those who led the chorus, as the etymology of the word denotes.”[1]
Can someone help us confirm this attribution if they have a different translation of Athenaeus (it was not evident in Perseus’s version, Book 14, which does not have 632 delineated)? We did find it in Strunk’s Source Readings in Music History on page 55, but are not sure of the line numbers.
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- ↑ Athenaeus, “From the Sophists at Dinner,” in “The Greek View of Music” in Oliver Strunk (selected and annotated by), Source Readings in Music History: From Classical Antiquity through the Romantic Era (New York: 1950), p. 55.
