cithara in a sentence
Examples
- The altar is adorned with thiasos " ( his ecstatic revenue ) in a dance to the music of pipe and cithara players.
- The use of the name throughout the Middle Ages looked back to the original Greek cithara and its abilities to sway people's emotions.
- Professor Ephraim Segerman made a case that the entry in the document for a lute-like instrument labeled " cithara " applied to the citola.
- The name " kissar " ( cithara ) given by the ancient Greeks to Egyptian box instruments reveals the apparent similarities recognized by Greeks themselves.
- The muse represented is Erato, muse of lyric poetry, with her usual attribute, the cithara, which she rests upon an ornately fluted column.
- The development continued from the early cithara lyre, through the forms of instruments ( called generically cithara ), through the citole, and becoming the cittern.
- The development continued from the early cithara lyre, through the forms of instruments ( called generically cithara ), through the citole, and becoming the cittern.
- The first, who sang and played the cithara or lyre and whose face was similar to that of the dead emperor, appeared in 69 during the reign of Vitellius.
- Despite the name, however, the lyric poetry in this general meaning was divided in four genres, two of which were not accompanied by cithara, but by flute.
- He was called Stesichorus because he was the first to establish ( " stesai " ) a chorus of singers to the cithara; his name was originally Tisias.