Category:Delphic hymns to Apollo

**Delphic Hymns**
	musical compositions from Ancient Greece
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Instance of	musical work/composition;
Dedicated to	Apollo;
Genre	religious music;
Composer	Athenaeus; Limenius;
Language of work or name	Ancient Greek;
Publication date	128 BC;
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English: The Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments. They were long regarded as being dated circa 138 BCE and 128 BCE, respectively, but recent scholarship has shown it likely they were both written for performance at the Athenian Pythaides in 128 BCE (Pöhlmann and West 2001, 71–72). If indeed it dates from ten years before the second, the First Delphic Hymn is the earliest unambiguous surviving example of notated music from anywhere in the western world whose composer is known by name.