OLYMPUS
Lire!

PJutarch On Music: Alexander in his Collections on
Phryoia declares that instrumental music was intro-
duced into Greece by Olympus and by the tdacan
Dactyvls or Priests of Cybele. The first flate player
according to him was Hy: agnis. who was followed by
his son M: arsvas, who was succeeded by Olympus.

The Same: fon lyre-sung ‘nomes*]: We are
told that the Olympus of whom we spoke just
now. a flute-player from Phrygia, composed a flute-
nome? te Apollo which is known as the Many-
Headed. This Olvimpus, however, is said by some
authorities to have been a descendant of the first
Olympus. son of Marsvas. who composed the nomes
to the Gods.—This earlier Olympus was in his boy-
hood a favourile of Marsvas, and learning dute-plaving
of him, introduced the musical nomes 2 into Greece,
where they are now used at the festivals of the
Gods.— According to another account, however, the
Many-FHeaded nome is the work of Crates +a pupil
of Olympus.’ though Pratinas declares it to be the
work of Olympus the Seeond, The Harmnatian

beeanse the development of Greek dyrie poctry is hardly
separable in its early stages from that of Greek music
Ξ τον, & certain type of air for the finte alone, not for flute
and voice as above