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Painter, the instructor sings to the lyre, while his teenage pupil accompanies the melody on pipes. Other young men holding instruments are standing awaiting their turns. One of them is passing the time of day with what looks like a leopard cub; there is also a dog in the room, and a small child squatting on the floor sucking its thumb.118 |
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On this homely note we may bring our survey to a close. It is not intended to be exhaustive or encyclopaedic, but simply to give an idea of the many and various ways in which music played a part in the life of ancient Greece, so that the more detailed data to be presented in the following chapters may be seen against this general background. The picture has been deliberately limited to the Archaic and Classical periods (eighth to fourth centuries), in order to maintain a semblance of coherence. Some account of later developments will be supplied in the final chapter. |
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118 Duds cup: Berlin F 2285. Agrigento Painter: London E 171 (Wegner, Musikleben, pl. 13; Paquette, 171 pl. viib, misidentified in the caption). Other school scenes are listed by E. Pöhlmann, Würzburger Jahrbücher 14 (1988), 15-19. |
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