586 BC –
Sakadas of Argos wins the prize for
aulos playing at the
Pythian Games, the first of three times. His aulos nomoi, especially one portraying the victorious combat of
Apollo with the
Python, remained popular for over two hundred years (Anderson and Mathiesen 2001).
405 BC –
Aristophanes, in The Frogs, defends
Aeschylus' treatment of poetry and music against the brilliance of
Euripides, whom he criticizes for many musical transgressions, and charges
Socrates with having advocated the destruction of the musical and literary traditions of tragedy (Anderson, Mathiesen, and Anderson 2001a).
Anderson, Warren, and
Thomas J. Mathiesen. 2001. "Sacadas [Sakadas] of Argos". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Anderson, Warren, Thomas J. Mathiesen, and Robert Anderson. 2001a. "Aristophanes". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Anderson, Warren, Thomas J. Mathiesen, and Robert Anderson. 2001b. "Euripides". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Bélis, Annie (ed.). 1992. Corpus des inscriptions de Delphes, vol. 3: "Les Hymnes à Apollon". Paris: De Boccard.
ISBN2-86958-051-7
Pöhlmann, Egert, and Martin L. West. 2001. Documents of Ancient Greek Music: The Extant Melodies and Fragments, edited and transcribed with commentary by Egert Pöhlmann and Martin L. West. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
ISBN0-19-815223-X