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Kithara

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A named large professional lyre of classical Greek practice. Not a lyre alone, not a psaltery, and not an aulos.

Also known as Cithara · Greek kithara

Hellenic religion

  • Kithara appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names the kithara among the large professional lyres of Greek contest and dedication. A named Hellenic concert lyre in that travel book, not the smaller Homeric lyre and not a lute.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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