THE WEEK

VIDEO: Researchers reveal how Ancient Greek music sounded

A centuries-old puzzle about the music that Ancient Greeks listened to has finally been solved, thanks to a pioneering new study. Music was an integral part of Ancient Greek culture, with the work of ...
Greek Reporter

The Ancient Greek Water-Organ: World’s Oldest Keyboard Instrument

Fragments of the Hydraulis—the ancient Greek water organ—were unearthed in the Dion, at the foot of Mount Olympus in 1992.
Greek Reporter

Ancient Greece Had a Thriving Pop Culture

A new discovery by a British archaeologist of Cambridge University reveals that there was a thriving pop culture in Ancient ...
Reuters

Ancient Greek sounds transfix audience in Athens

ATHENS (Reuters) - Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, ...
NPR

A Greek Summer Hit Fills A Generation With Hope

Until last year, few Greeks had heard of Marina Satti. The architecture student-turned-classically-trained singer had performed in musicals and ancient Greek plays, but her music career was largely ...
Reuters

'Meeting with the past', Greek family keeps ancient instruments alive

EVROPOS, Greece, Nov 28 (Reuters) - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching ...
NPR

The Sound Of Ancient Greek In 'The Iliad'

The classic Greek epic poem The Iliad attributed to Homer regales the listener with tales of the siege of ancient Troy. "The World According to Sound" podcast reads the poem how it was intended — ...