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in boys’ schools, the cithara was a virtuoso's instrument and generally known as requiring a great deal of skill. The cithara was played primarily to...

was a classical Greek professional performer (singer) of the cithara, as one who used the cithara to accompany their singing. Famous citharodes included...

body, arms and transverse bar in one piece...the cithara with rectangular body, while from the cithara with a body having the curve of the lower half...

indications that there was a flourishing musical culture. Instruments included the cithara, tympanum, and chorus. Visual representations and written sources demonstrate...

forms of the Apollo Citharoedus statue type, in which the god holds the cithara in his left arm. The type-piece, the first example discovered, is named...

Greeks as the cithara. The rotta possessed, in common with all other forerunners of the violin, the chief structural features of the cithara: the box sound...

cithara player and singer, was performing in a competition when one of the cithara strings snaps. A cicada as offering, alights on his cithara, sustaining...

lyre-form) and cythara (the lyre-form developing into a necked instrument). The cithara was a stringed musical instrument, constructed in wood and similar to...

musician and citharode of ancient Greece. He was known as a master of the cithara, and traced his descent from the renowned Terpander. He lived around...

When the boy reached puberty, he became so accomplished in singing to the cithara that the Scythians made him their king even though he was an interloper...

Lacedaemonian festival of the Carneia, there were musical contests with the cithara, in which the Lesbian musicians of Terpander's school had obtained the...

represented is Erato, muse of lyric poetry, with her usual attribute, the cithara, which she rests upon an ornately fluted column. The poet on the facing...

changes in music. These included adding to the number of strings on the cithara, introducing complex melodies with more notes and larger intervals between...

that reminded him of the "yoke" on the cithara lyre and "enormous ornamental wings" that were remains from the cithara lyre's arms. Under the theory, a...

(Desire), a statue by Scopas, restored here as Apollo Kitharoidos (Apollo, the Cithara-player) Two marble heads by Scopas, National Museum Athens Wikimedia...

which may partly account for the liberties he took with the music of the cithara. His innovations and affectations are repeatedly attacked by the comic...

day was one of celebration for his rebirth. The young people played the cithara and the aulos, and sang of the glory of Apollo. Others participated in...

a statue was erected to him. Pausanias ascribes the introduction of the cithara contest without vocals to the eighth Pythian Games. Poetry and prose...

impostors emerged leading rebellions. The first, who sang and played the cithara or lyre and whose face was similar to that of the dead emperor, appeared...

that he developed the citharoedic nomos (sung to the accompaniment of the cithara or lyre) by making the divisions of the ode seven instead of four. The...