The Homeric poems were presented in the music contests of Pythia and the Panathenaia to the accompaniment of the kithara. Attic red-figure pelike with a depiction of a kithara-player. 475 BC.
Basle, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig.
Cartledge, P. (ed.), The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998, p. 236.
© Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, Basle.