Phrynnis
Phrynnis or Phrynis (
Phrynnis was born in Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos, but later lived and made his career at Athens. His father's name seems to have been "Camon" or "Cambon" but the true form is very doubtful. Respecting his own name, also, there is some doubt among scholars, but the form "Phrynnis" is the genuine Aeolic Greek form.
He belonged to the
Among the innovations which he is said to have made, was the addition of two strings to the
Phrynnis was the first who gained the victory in the musical contests established by Pericles, in connection with the festivals of the Panathenaic Games,[7] probably in 445 BCE.[8][9] He was one of the instructors of Timotheus of Miletus, who, however, defeated him on one occasion.[9]
An ahistorical version of Phrynnis was used as a main character in the treatise called Phynnis Mitilenaeus by German musician and writer Wolfgang Printz in the 1670s. This was a sort of moral screed against "beer fiddlers", or Printz's caricature of "overly sensual" musicians.[10]
References
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- ^ apud Plut. de Mus. p. 1146
- ^ August Meineke, Fragmenta comicorum graecorum vol. ii. p. 326, &c.
- ^ Aristophanes, The Clouds 971, comp. Schol
- ^ Schmidt, Dithyramb. pp. 89-95
- ISBN 9781139479813. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
- ^ Schol. ad Aristoph. Nub. l.c.
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- ^ a b Karl Otfried Müller, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur bis auf das Zeitalter Alexanders vol. ii. p. 286
- ISBN 9781107004283. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870). "Phrynnis". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. p. 361.