Music and the Muses: The Culture of 'Mousike' in the Classical Athenian City by Peter Wilson, Penelope Murray

Music and the Muses: The Culture of 'Mousike' in the Classical Athenian City

Peter Wilson, Penelope Murray

456 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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What was the role of mousike, the realm of the Muses, in Greek life? More wide-ranging in its implications than the English 'music', mousike lay at the heart of Greek culture, and was often indeed synonymous with culture. In its commonest form, it...

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