Top of the charts in 450 BC

The ancient Greeks did a lot of things right, of course, and let’s not forget that there was music even before there was iTunes and jazz and amps and 600-watt speakers….

You wanna hear what was on the Greek Hit Parade 2,500 years ago?

Try this exotic offering  from Open Culture.

I assume you just tried it. That was David Creese, a classics scholar at the University of Newcastle, playing an authentic melody on the 8-string “canon” (like a zither).

Maybe you weren’t snapping your fingers, but I bet you were intrigued….

Now, mind, this is the kind of stuff they played to warm up the audience at performances of plays by that Aeschylus guy....

....I’m not trying to suggest that you should stop listening to Eric Clapton….

Can the fire company's ladder reach you?

Who's the wolf?

Homo sapiens?

Rich man's toy....