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Headword: Hoti Alexandros philêkoos ên
Adler number: alpha,1122
Translated headword: Alexander, Alexandros
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Alexander was as fond of listening to music as anyone. For, even earlier, Timotheos the piper, whom they say once piped the so-called orthios nomos of Athena,[1] so greatly amazed Alexander with his melodies that in the middle of listening he rose up to arms; and he said that that is what the royal pipe-tunes ought to be like. Naturally, this Timotheos, having been sent for, went to him eagerly.
Greek Original:
Hoti Alexandros philêkoos ên, eiper tis allos, tôn mousikôn. Timotheos gar ho aulêtês eti prosthen, hon pote aulounta legousi tês Athênas ton orthion nomon epikaloumenon, es tosonde ekplêxai Alexandron tois melesin, hôste metaxu akousanta anaïxai epi ta hopla: ton de phanai, hoti toiauta chrê einai ta basilika aulêmata. houtos te dê ho Timotheos anelêluthei pros auton spoudêi metapemptos genomenos.
Notes:
From tau 620; see also omicron 573. (For Alexander see already alpha 1121, and again alpha 1123.)
[1] A nomos (in this context) was "a specific, nameable melody [...] sung or played in a formal setting in which it was conventionally appropriate: a sacrifice, a funeral, a festival competition, or a professional display... [T]he nomos of Athena...was probably a standard item at the Panathenaic musical contests" (M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 216). In the same specialized context the adjective orthios signified a particular rhythm: see West 156-7. West also collects evidence (352 n.119) for the orthios nomos as played on the kithara (kappa 1590). That Timotheos played it on the aulos may be the point of emphasis in the present entry.
Keywords: biography; ethics; military affairs; meter and music; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 May 2000@20:58:13.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword, translation, keywords; added note) on 27 January 2001@10:39:07.
David Whitehead (tweaks to tr) on 8 April 2010@07:10:34.
David Whitehead (more x-refs; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 3 February 2012@06:54:21.

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