female warriors, | | kithara-player of Greece. His from the | | descendants remain during many Caucasus, invade | | generations the privileged Greece. | | kithara-players at the | | public festivities in Athens. | | Troy taken by | 1200 | Agias, a celebrated Greek musician the Greeks | | about the time of the destruction of (1184). | | Troy. | | Grecian heroes: | | The invention of the Dorian Mode is Menelaus, | | ascribed to Lamyras of Thracia; the Agamemnon, | | invention of the Lydian Mode, to Achilles, | | Carius; and the invention of the Ulysses. | | Ionian Mode, to Pythermus. | | Trojan heroes: | | Celmis, a priest of Creta, invents Priam, Hector, | | (or probably improves) several Paris, AEneas. | | instruments of percussion. | | Codrus, the last | 1100 | Ardalus, of Troezen, invents a new King of Athens | | species of flute for accompanying (1070). Abolition | | vocal music. of Royalty. | | King Saul. | | The Greeks about this time possessed Cheops, the | | various kinds of stringed instruments builder of the | | and wind instruments, and the names greatest Pyramid | | of several musicians are recorded who in Egypt. | | improved the instruments, or | | introduced innovations in the | | construction of the popular ones. | | | 1050 | David, King of Judah, musician and | | poet. Psalms. | | King Solomon | | King David institutes in Jerusalem a (1010-975). | | School for vocal and instrumental | | music (I. Chron., Chap. xv., v. 16). Dido builds the | 1000 | Bardus, a King of Gallia, is said to city of Carthage | | have introduced music into Western on the | | Europe, and to have been the first of north coast of | | the singers known as the Bards. Africa. | | Development of | 900 | Homer, singer and poet, born the Republics | | probably in Chios. Iliad and Odyssey. in Greece. | | Lycurgus reforms | 850 | Hesiodus, singer and poet, born in