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Pronomos and Potamon: two pipers and two epigrams*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson
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University of Sydney
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Abstract:

Although he was one of the most famous musicians of Classical antiquity, the pipe-player (auletes) Pronomos of Thebes has never attracted serious scholarly attention in his own right. This contribution seeks to address this neglect by attempting to establish a basic chronological framework for his life. In doing so, it introduces a new item of evidence, the inscribed funerary monument of one Potamon of Thebes, a contemporary and colleague of Pronomos in the art of auletike. A close relationship is shown to exist between the epigram on this funerary monument, found in Athens, and that which accompanied the statue on the Theban akropolis, erected in honour of Pronomos.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 127 , November 2007 , pp. 141 - 149
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 2007

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