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The Seikilos Epitaph

EIKΩNHΛIΘOΣEIMITIΘHΣIMEΣEIKIΛOΣENΘA
MNHMHΣAΘANATOYΣHMAΠOΛYXPONION

I am a tombstone, an icon. Seikilos placed me here as an
everlasting sign of deathless remembrance


OΣONZHIΣΦAINOY = While you live, shine
MHΔENOΛΩΣΣYΛYΠOY = don't suffer anything at all
ΠPOΣOΛIΓONEΣTITOZHN = life exists only a short while
TOTEΛOΣOXRONOΣAΠAITEI =and time demands its toll

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  • Great! Amazing song and beautiful performance! From your ancient neighbour Armenia )).

  • Εγω δεν αγαπω η αυτη μουσικη! Βλεπω ενα ηλιθιος!!!!!

  • @jblkwoodify la stele di Sicilo serviva molto probabilmente da epitaffio : un bellissimo testamento rivolto all'amata Euterpe

  • This is a great prove that the death could not interrupt the passion of a very beautiful music.

  • The Epitaph of Seikilos is the closest thing there is about ancient Greek music. Great video, great channel. Keep up the great work.

  • this is a great video. You definitely made me feel in the glorious Ancient Greek. The importance of music to the Greeks was monumental and yet to find a severe lack of evidence leaves many scientists stumped as to what Greek music actually sounded like.

  • @kzn876x Skolion derives from skolios, which means crooked. It used to be a drinking song played at parties and stuff. The people used to hold a bottle of wine and then pass it around randomly until everyone had gone, hence the "crooked" order.While a skolion is relatively light in mood, an epigram is not. It is an inscription commemorating the dead. Essentially it is an epitaph. They would often be written in first person and were inscribed on gravestones.

  • @jblkwoodify What is a skolion??

  • By the way, is Seikilos epitaph an epigram or a skolion?

  • @balger5678 I think that the Epitaph of Seikilos has safely been placed into the Phrygian mode.

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