Old Greek Education

Note 44 — Chapter VI · THE SUBJECTS AND METHOD OF EDUCATION—DRAWING AND MUSIC.

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Aristotle fully appreciates this, and admits, even in his perfect polity, popular music to suit the vulgar listener, who cannot understand what is really classical (“Pol.,” viii.: ὁ γὰρ θεατὴς φορτικὸς ὤν. κ.τ.λ.).

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