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Reading Aulos in situ in the 'Symposium' display of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology
The Reading Aulos on display at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology

The Reading Aulos is the surviving half of an ancient Greek aulos (reed-blown double pipe). It is much more complete than other examples found to date, and is on permanent display at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology in Reading, England.

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The Reading Aulos

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The Reading Aulos is the surviving half of an ancient Greek aulos (reed-blown double pipe). It is much more complete than other examples found to date...

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Aulos

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Look up aulos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An aulos (Ancient Greek: αὐλός, plural αὐλοί, auloi) or tibia (Latin) was a wind instrument in ancient...

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Beni Hasan funerary boat

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for the collection of the (then) Museum of Greek Archaeology (later to become the Ure Museum), at the University of Reading, in 1923. It is one of the more...

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Etruscan amphora showing Troilos

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http://uredb.reading.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ure/uredb.cgi?rec=47.6.1[permanent dead link] PN Ure, 'A New Pontic Amphora', The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol 71 (The Society...

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Percy Ure

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1950) was the University of Reading's first Professor of Classics (1911–1946) and the founder of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology at Reading. His wife...

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Music of ancient Greece

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by an aulos player.: 8  Music occupied an important role in the Greek sacrificial ceremonies. The sarcophagus of Hagia Triada shows that the aulos was present...

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Chigi vase

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is not clear if the hoplite formation shown here is the developed form as it was practiced from the 6th century onwards. Lastly aulos-players and cadenced...

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Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology

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of the English town of Reading, Berkshire. The museum is open to the public and entry is free. The museum houses a collection of material from the Greek...

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Annie Ure

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accepted to University of Reading to read classics. As Reading did not yet have a university charter, she received her B.A. from the University of London in...

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Symposium

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hired to perform, consort, and converse with the guests. Among the instruments women might play was the aulos, a Greek woodwind instrument sometimes compared...

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Athenaeus

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Thomas Browne, From a Reading of Athenaeus David Braund and John Wilkins (eds.), Athenaeus and his world: reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire, Exeter:...

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Athena

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silly, so she threw the aulos away and cursed it so that whoever picked it up would meet an awful death. The aulos was picked up by the satyr Marsyas, who...

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Roman Empire

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often shared aloud at meals or with reading groups. Public readings (recitationes) expanded from the 1st through the 3rd century, giving rise to "consumer...

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Lapis Niger

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Moreover, the original form of classic Latin aluus, 'abdomen', and also stools, as still attested in Cato Maior was *aulos, that Max Niedermann on the grounds...

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Muses

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scroll and books; Euterpe (song and elegiac poetry) carries a double-pipe, the aulos; Erato (lyric poetry) is often seen with a lyre and a crown of roses;...

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Music of ancient Rome

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customary at funerals, and the tibia (Greek aulos), a woodwind instrument, was played at sacrifices to ward off ill influences. Under the influence of ancient...

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Silenus

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use in the mid-5th century BC. Papposilenus playing an aulos, bronze from 3rd century BC, (Walters Art Museum) Two papposilenoi as singers at the Panathenaia...

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Entertainment

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and timeless insight into reading's innate power". The past gives us pleasure and is of more service than the present; but the delight of what we once felt...

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Numerius Negidius

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the judge in a civil lawsuit, began as follows: si paret Numerium Negidium Aulo Agerio sestertium decem milia dare oportere, meaning, "if it appears that...

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Greece

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spiritual reasons. Instruments included the double-reed aulos and the plucked string instrument, the lyre, especially the special kind called a kithara. Music...

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Greek alphabet

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the mergers: Modern Greek speakers typically use the same, modern symbol–sound mappings in reading Greek of all historical stages. In other countries...

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Penelope

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1163/24688487-00501002. ISSN 2405-450X. But compare, for an unusual exception, the seated aulos player on the "Ludovisi Throne. Mactoux, Marie-Madeleine (1975). Pénélope:...

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Warfare in ancient Greek art

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pieces of artwork that depict the aulos player. One of the most prominent pieces show how the aulos player helped keep the hoplite soldiers in step by playing...

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Karoliina Korppoo

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include Aulos(2008) and Invitation to Love(2010), which borrows its name from the Twin Peaks television series. Korppoo has been a speaker at the TED main...

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Greek language

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The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek...

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Music

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spiritual ceremonies. Instruments included the double-reed aulos and a plucked string instrument, the lyre, principally a special kind called a kithara. Music...

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Circular breathing

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the air pressure get tired first. The following instruments utilize circular breathing: Alboka Algoze Arghul Aulos Clarinet Didgeridoo Dizi Duduk Hornpipe...

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Sappho

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red-figure vase by either the Dokimasia Painter or Brygos Painter includes Sappho and Alcaeus with barbitoi. Sappho mentions the aulos, a wind instrument with...

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Athena Marsyas Group

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literary testimonia. The work depicted the satyr Marsyas picking up an aulos dropped by Athena. The sculpture is mentioned twice in the ancient sources. Pausanias...

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