Music and the Muses
Subtitle: The Culture of 'Mousike' in the Classical Athenian City
Contributors: Penelope Murray (Editor); Peter Wilson (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 5, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780199242399
First sentence: As Aristophanes' chorus of mystic initiates proceeds across the stage in the parodos of the Frogs, it dismisses from its choroi 'whoever ... has not seen or danced the secret rites of the high-born Muses.