Askaules

Askaules (Greek: ἄσκαυλος from ἀσκός "bag" and αὐλός "pipe"), probably the Greek word for bag-piper, although there is no documentary authority for its use.^[1]

History

Neither *ἄσκαυλης nor ἄσκαυλος (which would naturally mean the

Dio Chrysostom flourished about AD 100; it is therefore only an assumption that the bag-pipe was known to the classical Greeks by the name of ἄσκαυλος. It need not, however, be a matter of surprise that among the highly cultured Greeks such an instrument as the bag-pipe should exist without finding a place in literature. It is significant that it is not mentioned by Pollux (Onomast. iv. 74) and Athenaeus (Deipnos. iv. 76) in their lists of the various kinds of pipes.^[1]

See also

• Aulos

References

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Askaules". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 762.