Epigonus of Ambracia

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Epigonus of Ambracia (Greek: Ἐπίγονος Ἀμβρακιώτης) (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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Athenaeus iv,183 d and xiv, 637 f. 1. 7.
The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece by Andrew Barker

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