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Fragments of both hymns in the Delphi Archaeological Museum. The Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments.They were long regarded as being dated c. 138 BC and 128 BC, respectively, but recent scholarship has shown it likely they were both written for performance at the Athenian Pythaids in 128 BC. [1]
A German scholar Otto Crusius in 1893, shortly after the publication of this inscription, was the first to observe that the music of this song as well as that of the hymns of Mesomedes tends to follow the pitch of the word accents. [13] The publication of the two Delphic hymns in the same year confirmed this
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Pages in category "Hymns in ancient Greek" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Delphic Hymns; H.
138 or 128 BC - Athenios son of Athenios composes the First Delphic Hymn (Bélis 1992, 48–49 and 53–54; Pöhlmann and West 2001, 71). 128 BC - Limenios, son of Thoinos composes a "Paean and Prosodion to the God" (i.e., Apollo), today called the Second Delphic Hymn (Pöhlmann and West 2001, 71).
Limenius (Greek: Λιμήνιος; [1] fl. 2nd century BC) was an Athenian musician and the creator of the Second Delphic Hymn in 128 BC. He is the earliest known composer in recorded history for a surviving piece of music, or one of the two earliest, or the second-earliest, depending first on whether one accepts the proposition of Bélis [2] that the composer of the First Delphic Hymn is ...
The Delphic oracle and the site of Delphi are heavily referenced across Greek myth and drama, both indirectly and directly. The mythological origins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi can be found in the second part of the Hymn to Apollo which recounts Pythian Apollo's journey to the site of Delphi.