Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Plato, Menexenus, 236a

nan for these are my two instructors, the one in music, the other in rhetoric. So it is not surprising that a man who is trained like me should be clever at speaking. But even a man less well taught than I, who had learnt his music from Lamprus and his rhetoric from Antiphon the Rhamnusian, —even such a one, I say, could none the less win credit by praising Athenians before an Athenian audience. Men. What, then, would you have to say, if you were required to speak? Soc. Nothing, perhaps, myself of my own invention;

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alcaeus,quoted by philocleon in wasps (aristophanes)	Cosgrove (2022) 98
aristophanes,mousikē	Cosgrove (2022) 98
connus (citharist)	Cosgrove (2022) 98
demos	Cosgrove (2022) 98
education (music),socrates	Cosgrove (2022) 98
eupolis	Cosgrove (2022) 98
harmodius scolion,in aristophanes wasps	Cosgrove (2022) 98
lyres/lyrody/citharas/citharists,and the demos	Cosgrove (2022) 98
mousikē,and aristophanes wasps	Cosgrove (2022) 98
mousikē	Cosgrove (2022) 98
philocleon (in aristophanes wasps)	Cosgrove (2022) 98
plato,charmides,playing instruments	Cosgrove (2022) 98
plato,crito,education	Cosgrove (2022) 98
plato,euthydemus	Cosgrove (2022) 98
socrates,in eupolis	Cosgrove (2022) 98
socrates,in platos crito	Cosgrove (2022) 98
socrates,in platos euthydemus	Cosgrove (2022) 98
socrates,musical education	Cosgrove (2022) 98
vase paintings,singing'	Cosgrove (2022) 98