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Arcadia (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 20
Music in Arcadia
Now, seeing that the Arcadians as a whole have a
The reasons of the barbarity of the Cynaethans. Their neglect of the refining influences of
music, which is carefully encouraged in the rest of Arcadia.
reputation for virtue throughout Greece, not
only in respect of their hospitality and humanity,
but especially fArcadia.
reputation for virtue throughout Greece, not
only in respect of their hospitality and humanity,
but especially for their scrupulous piety, it
seems worth while to investigate briefly the
barbarous character of the Cynaethans: and
inquire how it came about that, though indisputably Arcadians in race, they at that time so
far surpassed the rest of Greece in cruelty and
contempt of law.
They seem then to me to be the first, and indeed the
only, Arcadians who have abandoned institutions nobly conceived by their ancestors and admirably adapted to the
character of all the inhabitants of Arcadia. For music, and I
mean by that true music, which it is advantageous to every one
to practice, is obligatory with the Arcadians. For we must
not think, as Ephorus in a hasty sentence
Greece (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 20