Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Anacreon
Anacreon, born at Tees, in Ionia, lived 500 years before Jesus Christ. He is said by Athenaeus to have invented the instrument called Barbiton. He died (as is well known) by being choked with a grapestone.
Anacreon, born at Tees, in Ionia, lived 500 years before Jesus Christ. He is said by Athenaeus to have invented the instrument called Barbiton. He died (as is well known) by being choked with a grapestone.