IN A RIDING-SCHOOL
From a Kulix by Euphronios, now in the Louvre. Hartwig’s Meisterschalen, Plate 53.
[680] The characteristics are sketched in Thuc. i. 70. Cp. the difference between Florence and Venice in Renaissance Italy.
[681] See also Thuc. i. 6; Athen. 512 B.C.
[682] No doubt all the theorists had a fatal temptation to judge the harmony by the opinion which they held of the race which produced it. The Lydian may have recovered prestige during the fourth century, for it included Karian, and Karia became a great power under Mausolos.
[683] Athen. 624 C.
[684] It is the only true Hellenic harmony (Plato, Lach. 188 D).
[685] Plato’s opinion of the harmonies is in Rep. 398-399. Aristotle, who professes only to summarise the views of experts, discusses them in Pol. viii. 7.
[686] Plato apparently accepts this principle with regard to the Korubantic dances (Laws, 790 D).
[687] Athen. 624 b.
[688] Pind. P. 5. 60-63. Cp. the story of Saul and David.