...the Ithomaea, and originally a musical contest was held. This can be gathered from the epic lines of Eumelus and other sources. Eumelus, in his processional hymn to Delos, says:For dear to the God of Ithome was the Muse, whose <lute> is pure and free her sandals. I think that he wrote the lines because he knew that they held a musical contest. At the Arcadian gate leading to Megalopolis is a H...