Epigonus of Ambracia
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Epigonus of Ambracia (6th century BC) was a Greek
musician from Ambracia
in South Epirus
, who was admitted to a citizenship at Sicyon
, where he lived, performed and taught. The Epigonion
(string instrument) was invented, or at least introduced in Greece by Epigonus. He was a contemporary of Lasus of Hermione.
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musician from Ambracia
Ambracia
Ambracia, occasionally Ampracia , was an ancient Corinthian colony, situated about 7 miles from the Ambracian Gulf in Greece, on a bend of the navigable river Arachthos , in the midst of a fertile wooded plain.-History:...
in South Epirus
Epirus
The name Epirus, from the Greek "Ήπειρος" meaning continent may refer to:-Geographical:* Epirus - a historical and geographical region of the southwestern Balkans, straddling modern Greece and Albania...
, who was admitted to a citizenship at Sicyon
Sicyon
Sikyon was an ancient Greek city situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day prefecture of Corinthia...
, where he lived, performed and taught. The Epigonion
Epigonion
An epigonion was an ancient stringed instrument mentioned in Athenaeus , probably a psaltery. The epigonion was invented, or at least introduced into Greece, by Epigonus of Ambracia, a Greek musician of Ambracia in Epirus, who was admitted to citizenship at Sicyon as a recognition of his great...
(string instrument) was invented, or at least introduced in Greece by Epigonus. He was a contemporary of Lasus of Hermione.