Melanippides Ancient Greek Musician, Poet. A celebrated kithara player of the 5th Century BC, he is said to have spearheaded Greece's "New Music" revolution. Melanippides was born in the Aegean island of Melos (now Milos). It appears he made his home in Athens while touring other city-states as a kitharode; he was certainly there in the early years of the Peloponnesian War, which began in 431 BC. His greatest student was Philoxenus of Cythera, whom he purchased as a young slave and later freed. Melanippides...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards) Archontiko Necropolis, Pella, Regional unit of Pella, Central Macedonia, Greece
Timotheus of Miletus Ancient Greek Musician, Poet. His innovations in Greek song and combative attitude made him the most notorious of the 5th Century "New Music" composers. Timotheus, who lived from 446 to 357 BC, was born in Miletus, Anatolia (in what is now Aydin Province, Turkey). A virtuoso kitharode (a singer-composer who accompanied himself on a kithara), he courted controversy from the start of his career by rejecting the dignified severity of classical Greek music. "I sing not the old songs, for my new...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards) Archontiko Necropolis, Pella, Regional unit of Pella, Central Macedonia, Greece
