| Description |
1 online resource (460 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Glossary of Musical Instruments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Topic and the Sources -- Chapter 1 Sympotic Scenes and Songs -- Chapter 2 The Gentleman's Lyre -- Chapter 3 Hellenistic Evolutions -- Chapter 4 Poets and Musicians at Upper-Class Greek Banquets: Before the Common Era -- Chapter 5 Music and Elite Dining in the Roman Age -- Chapter 6 Music at the Social Recreations of the Lower Classes -- Chapter 7 Music at the Suppers and Feasts of the Jewish People |
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Chapter 8 Music at Christian Social Meals -- Chapter 9 Purposes and Pleasures -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Subject Index |
| Summary |
Comprehensive history of one of the greatest pleasures of ancient life, recreational music, and the various purposes it served |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Music, Greek and Roman -- Social aspects
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HISTORY / Ancient / General.
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Civilization
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
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Rome -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115094
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| Subject |
Greece
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Rome (Empire)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1009204831 |
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9781009204835 |
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