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Kithara
Adler number: kappa,1590
Translated headword: kithara, cithara
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] lyre.
Greek Original:Kithara: lura.
Note:
An unexceptionable gloss: even rigorous modern scholarship -- exemplified in M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) chap.3 -- is prepared to classify the several shapes of kithara as, broadly speaking, one of the two subsets (box-, as opposed to bowl-) of lyre.
Keywords: definition; meter and music; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 August 2001@05:13:17.
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