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Headword:
ᾨδεῖον
Adler number: omega,18
Translated headword: Odeion, Odeon, Odeum
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. It is to be found] at
Athens [and functions] just like a theatre. They say that Pericles created it for musical displays; for because of this it was named Odeion, from an ode. A court is in it, that of the archon; and also barley used to be weighed out there.
ᾨδεῖον: Ἀθήνησιν ὥσπερ θέατρον, ὃ πεποίηκεν, ὥς φασι, Περικλῆς εἰς τὸ ἐπιδείκνυσθαι τοὺς μουσικούς: διὰ τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ ᾠδεῖον ἐκλήθη, ἀπὸ τῆς ᾠδῆς. ἔστι δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ δικαστήριον τοῦ ἄρχοντος. διεμετρεῖτο δὲ καὶ ἄλφιτα ἐκεῖ.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius; similar ones elsewhere.
The Odeion lay on the south-east slope of the Acropolis. See e.g.
Plutarch,
Life of Pericles 13.9 (with Stadter's commentary), and generally J.M. Hurwit,
The Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge 1999) 216-217 and Appendix C, #19.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 January 2004@06:20:32.
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