& founds | | on music. Division of the musicians a library in | | into Musici, or the followers of Alexandria. | | Aristoxenus, who derive the rules of | | music from its effect upon the | | ear,--and Canonici, or the followers | | of Pythagoras, who derive them from | | mathematical laws. | | Pyrrhus, King of | 300 | About this period the Greeks made Epirus, is defeated | | many improvements in the construction by the | | of their musical instruments. Romans (275). | | | | Euclides, of Alexandria, born in | | 323, died 283, mathematician, writes | | on the theory of music and acoustics. | | The first Punic | 250 | Archimedes, of Syracuse, born in war (264-241). | | 287, died 212, mathematician, is said The second Punic | | to have invented the hydraulic organ. war (218-202). | | | | Scipio defeats | | Ctesibius, of Alexandria, improves Hannibal in | | the pneumatic organ and alters it into Africa (202). | | a hydraulic organ. His son Hero still | | further perfects the instrument and | | describes it. | | The first Macedonian | 200 | Aristeas, of Greece, a war (200). | | kithara-player, writes a treatise | | on kithara-playing. The first library | | at Rome (167). | | | | Corinth and Carthage | 150 | Polybius, of Megalopolis in Arcadia, destroyed | | born about the year 204, historian, by the Romans | | writes a treatise on the influence of (146). Greece | | music upon civilization. and North | | Africa become | | Roman provinces. | | | | Civil war in Rome | 100 | Alypius, of Alexandria, writes on (88). | | musical notation by means of the | | letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans | | under Julius | | Caesar invade | | Britain (55). | | | | Julius Caesar | 50 | Hermogenes (Marcus Tigellius), assassinated in | | singer and instrumentalist of Greece,