Author’s Note: 7 - 12. The Cosmology of War
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Author’s Note: 7
The following author’s note (without an introduction or transition characteristic of his writing throughout The Creation of Order) appeared at the end of Chapter 12. Can you help us work its contents into the body of this chapter to be consistent with the rest of The Creation of Order? A new section—perhaps on military music as mentioned in the general query about military music (Athenaeus)—in Chapter 12 may be created for it to work.
Note: See also this query about a missing mention of “paean” in the Chapter 12 body.
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Military Music Continued (Snodgrass 1980)
[Anthony Snodgrass, Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment (London: 1980), p. 106, regarding music and war:]Key Concept Missing in Chapter BodyCan you add a mention of “paean” here that is teased in the Key Concepts section of Chapter 12?
A Corinthian vase c. 675 BC shows a piper, “an indispensable participant in the later Spartan phalanx where his music kept the men in step, and therefore perhaps a sign of incipient phalanx tactics,”[1] as well as morale-boosting effects.
- ↑ Anthony Snodgrass, Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment (London: 1980), p. 106.
