{"id":457,"date":"2018-11-01T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw97\/?p=457"},"modified":"2018-11-02T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T09:03:43","slug":"ancient-greece-song-of-seikilos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw97\/index.php\/2018\/11\/01\/ancient-greece-song-of-seikilos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Greece: Song of Seikilos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"513\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9RjBePQV4xE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Channel:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCtDZ4hLITW5j7P4ue1BdRCA\">Toyotomi<\/a><br \/>\nDuration: 2:20<br \/>\nDescription: This song is one of the earliest examples yet found of a complete musical composition from the ancient world. Although other songs have been found that pre-date &#8216;The Song of Seikilos&#8217; by many centuries, they only survive in fragments. Seikilos carved the song on a grave pillar in dedication to his wife. The Grave was discovered in 1883, near Aydin in Turkey. Archaeologists believe it dates between 200 BC and AD 100.<\/p>\n<p>Seikilos also inscribed a poem on the gravestone, it reads:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hoson z\u0113s, phainou<br \/>\nM\u0113den hol\u014ds sy lypou;<br \/>\nPros oligon esti to z\u0113n<br \/>\nTo telos ho chronos apaitei.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In English:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As long as you live, shine,<br \/>\nLet nothing grieve you beyond measure.<br \/>\nFor your life is short,<br \/>\nand time will claim its toll.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Published: September 6, 2008 11:22 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Channel:\u00a0Toyotomi Duration: 2:20 Description: This song is one of the earliest examples yet found of a complete musical composition from the ancient world. Although other songs have been found that pre-date &#8216;The Song of Seikilos&#8217; by many centuries, they only survive in fragments. Seikilos carved the song on a grave pillar in dedication to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw97\/index.php\/2018\/11\/01\/ancient-greece-song-of-seikilos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ancient Greece: Song of Seikilos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancientgreece"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw97\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw97\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw97\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw97\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw97\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw97\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw97\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw97\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw97\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw97\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}