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Pausanias, Description Of Greece, 10.7.4

τῆς δὲ τεσσαρακοστῆς Ὀλυμπιάδος καὶ ὀγδόης, ἣν Γλαυκίας ὁ Κροτωνιάτης ἐνίκησε, ταύτης ἔτει τρίτῳ ἆθλα ἔθεσαν οἱ Ἀμφικτύονες κιθαρῳδίας μὲν καθὰ καὶ ἐξ ἀρχῆς, προσέθεσαν δὲ καὶ αὐλῳδίας ἀγώνισμα καὶ αὐλῶν· ἀνηγορεύθησαν δὲ νικῶντες Κεφαλήν τε Μελάμπους κιθαρῳδίᾳ καὶ αὐλῳδὸς Ἀρκὰς Ἐχέμβροτος, Σακάδας δὲ Ἀργεῖος ἐπὶ τοῖς αὐλοῖς· ἀνείλετο δὲ ὁ Σακάδας οὗτος καὶ ἄλλας δύο τὰς ἐφεξῆς ταύτης πυθιάδας. In the third year of the forty-eighth Olympiad, 586 B.C at which Glaucias of Crotona was victorious, the Amphictyons held contests for harping as from the beginning, but added competitions for flute-playing and for singing to the flute. The conquerors proclaimed were Melampus, a Cephallenian, for harping, and Echembrotus, an Arcadian, for singing to the flute, with Sacadas of Argos for flute-playing. This same Sacadas won victories at the next two Pythian festivals.

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1. Herodotus, Histories, 3.131, 5.67 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 3.131. Now this is how Democedes had come from Croton to live with Polycrates: he was oppressed by a harsh-tempered father at Croton ; since he could not stand him, he left him and went to Aegina . Within the first year after settling there, he excelled the rest of the physicians, although he had no equipment nor any medical implements. ,In his second year the Aeginetans paid him a talent to be their public physician; in the third year the Athenians hired him for a hundred minae, and Polycrates in the fourth year for two talents. Thus he came to Samos, and not least because of this man the physicians of Croton were well-respected [ ,for at this time the best physicians in Greek countries were those of Croton, and next to them those of Cyrene . About the same time the Argives had the name of being the best musicians]. 5.67. In doing this, to my thinking, this Cleisthenes was imitating his own mother's father, Cleisthenes the tyrant of Sicyon, for Cleisthenes, after going to war with the Argives, made an end of minstrels' contests at Sicyon by reason of the Homeric poems, in which it is the Argives and Argos which are primarily the theme of the songs. Furthermore, he conceived the desire to cast out from the land Adrastus son of Talaus, the hero whose shrine stood then as now in the very marketplace of Sicyon because he was an Argive. ,He went then to Delphi, and asked the oracle if he should cast Adrastus out, but the priestess said in response: “Adrastus is king of Sicyon, and you but a stone thrower.” When the god would not permit him to do as he wished in this matter, he returned home and attempted to devise some plan which might rid him of Adrastus. When he thought he had found one, he sent to Boeotian Thebes saying that he would gladly bring Melanippus son of Astacus into his country, and the Thebans handed him over. ,When Cleisthenes had brought him in, he consecrated a sanctuary for him in the government house itself, where he was established in the greatest possible security. Now the reason why Cleisthenes brought in Melanippus, a thing which I must relate, was that Melanippus was Adrastus' deadliest enemy, for Adrastus had slain his brother Mecisteus and his son-in-law Tydeus. ,Having then designated the precinct for him, Cleisthenes took away all Adrastus' sacrifices and festivals and gave them to Melanippus. The Sicyonians had been accustomed to pay very great honor to Adrastus because the country had once belonged to Polybus, his maternal grandfather, who died without an heir and bequeathed the kingship to him. ,Besides other honors paid to Adrastus by the Sicyonians, they celebrated his lamentable fate with tragic choruses in honor not of Dionysus but of Adrastus. Cleisthenes, however, gave the choruses back to Dionysus and the rest of the worship to Melanippus.
2. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.22.8-2.22.9, 9.30.2, 10.7.2-10.7.3, 10.7.5-10.7.6, 10.8.10 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.22.8. As you go along a straight road to a gymnasium, called Cylarabis after the son of Sthenelus, you come to the grave of Licymnius, the son of Electryon, who, Homer says, was killed by Tleptolemus, the son of Heracles for which homicide Tleptolemus was banished from Argos . On turning a little aside from the road to Cylarabis and to the gate there, you come to the tomb of Sacadas, who was the first to play at Delphi the Pythian flute-tune; 2.22.9. the hostility of Apollo to flute-players, which had lasted ever since the rivalry of Marsyas the Silenus, is supposed to have stayed because of this Sacadas. In the gymnasium of Cylarabes is an Athena called Pania; they show also the graves of Sthenelus and of Cylarabes himself. Not far from the gymnasium has been built a common grave of those Argives who sailed with the Athenians to enslave Syracuse and Sicily . 9.30.2. of poets or famous musicians they have set up likenesses of the following. There is Thamyris himself, when already blind, with a broken lyre in his hand, and Arion of Methymna upon a dolphin. The sculptor who made the statue of Sacadas of Argos, not understanding the prelude of Pindar about him, has made the flute-player with a body no bigger than his flute. 10.7.2. The oldest contest and the one for which they first offered prizes was, according to tradition, the singing of a hymn to the god. The man who sang and won the prize was Chrysothemis of Crete, whose father Carmanor is said to have cleansed Apollo. After Chrysothemis, says tradition, Philammon won with a song, and after him his son Thamyris. But they say that Orpheus, a proud man and conceited about his mysteries, and Musaeus, who copied Orpheus in everything, refused to submit to the competition in musical skill. 10.7.3. They say too that Eleuther won a Pythian victory for his loud and sweet voice, for the song that he sang was not of his own composition. The story is that Hesiod too was debarred from competing because he had not learned to accompany his own singing on the harp. Homer too came to Delphi to inquire about his needs, but even though he had learned to play the harp, he would have found the skill useless owing to the loss of his eye-sight. 10.7.5. On that occasion they also offered for the first time prizes for athletes, the competitions being the same as those at Olympia, except the four-horse chariot, and the Delphians themselves added to the contests running-races for boys, the long course and the double course. At the second Pythian Festival they no longer offered prizes for events, and hereafter gave a crown for victory. On this occasion they no longer included singing to the flute, thinking that the music was ill-omened to listen to. For the tunes of the flute were most dismal, and the words sung to the tunes were lamentations. 10.7.6. What I say is confirmed by the votive offering of Echembrotus, a bronze tripod dedicated to the Heracles at Thebes . The tripod has as its inscription:— Echembrotus of Arcadia dedicated this pleasant gift to Heracles When he won a victory at the games of the Amphictyons, Singing for the Greeks tunes and lamentations. In this way the competition in singing to the flute was dropped. But they added a chariot-race, and Cleisthenes, the tyrant of Sicyon, was proclaimed victor in the chariot-race. 10.8.10. I have heard another account, that the water was a gift to Castalia from the river Cephisus. So Alcaeus has it in his prelude to Apollo. The strongest confirmation of this view is a custom of the Lilaeans, who on certain specified days throw into the spring of the Cephisus cakes of the district and other things ordained by use, and it is said that these reappear in Castalia.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aenus	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301
akte (seaboard of argolid),and argos	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
akte (seaboard of argolid)	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
amphictyons	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649, 684
anthology,palatine	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649
apollo	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648, 684
apollo pythios (delphi),argolid	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
apollo pythios (delphi),early fifth-century transformation	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
apollo pythios (delphi),musical traditions of	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
arcadia	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 652
archaeology,monumentalization	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
archaeology,monuments	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
archaeology,naxian sphinx	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
argos,argive	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649
argos,self-dorianization	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
argos	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
aristonikos (musician)	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
arsinoeia and philadelpheia games,crown games (periodos)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
arsinoeia and philadelpheia games,pythian (delphic) games	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
asclepiades	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649
athena	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 652
athenaeus	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649, 652
athenian	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
athens	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
boeotia	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648
bommelaer jean-françois	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
buckler,john	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
carneia	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
catalogue	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649
choral	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
choregia,and community building	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
chorus,khoros,kyklios	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
cithara	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649, 684
city	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
cleisthenes,of sicyon	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301, 652
cleisthenes	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 652
colonisation	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301
comedy,i	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
communal religion	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
competition	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649, 652, 684
competitive	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
croton	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649
cult,regional networks (amphictionies)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
cynulcus	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649, 652
davies,john k.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
deianeira	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
delos	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
delphi,amphictiony	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
delphi,oracle	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
delphi,sacred wars	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
delphi,sanctuary of apollo	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
delphi	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301, 648, 652, 684
dionysia,athenian	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
dionysus	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
dithyramb	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
echembrotus	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648, 649, 652
elites,ἔναυλος κιθάρισις	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
epaminondas	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648
festival	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 652, 684
first performance	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648, 652
giangiulio,m.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
glaucias,of croton	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649
hebrus	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301
hedylus	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649
helicon	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648
heracles	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
herodotus	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 652
hesiod	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301
hexameters	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
homeric hymns,apollo	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
hornblower,simon	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
horse,wooden	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649
hyacinthia	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
hymn	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301, 684
insular,local (often civic)	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
isthmus	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
lefèvre françois	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
luce,jean-marc	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
lysander (sikyonian musician)	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
melampus,of cephallenia	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649
morgan,catherine a.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
mousike,music,and identity	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
mousike,music,and social change	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
mousike,music,argolid	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
muse	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648
mytilene	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301
naucratis	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649
nemea	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
nomos,pythian	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
olympia	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
oracles,delphi'	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
paean	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
page,denys	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301
panathenaea	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
partida,elena	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
pausanias	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648, 649, 652
performance culture,argolid,competitive	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
pindar	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648
pipe	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 652, 684
pittacus	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301
plutarch,de musica	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 652
polis,and musical innovation	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
pollux,of naucratis	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648, 649
polykrates,of samos	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
prayer	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301
prize	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648
prosodion	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
pythia	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648, 652
pythian games	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
pythokritos (sikyonian aulete)	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
python	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
robertson,n.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
rolley,c.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
sacadas	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648, 649, 652, 684
sakadas	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
samos	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
sanchez,p.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
scott,michael	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 276
sikyon	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 129
sophist	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648
sparta	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
stesichorus	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649
thasos,thasian	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
thigh	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301
thrace,thracian	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301
tragedy,attic	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 684
troy	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 649, 652, 684
victory,chariot	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 301, 652
writing	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 648, 649