Musicians and Composers of the Ancient World
The atlas holds 4 people and 28 moments here, from 600 BC to 141. The most recorded lives are Nero, Pythagoras and Sappho.
Notable people
Nero
from 37 to 68
19 moments here
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was Roman emperor from 13 October 54 to 9 June 68. This chronology records securely documented physical…
Pythagoras
from 570 BC to 490 BC
5 moments here
Ancient Greek philosopher and founder of the Pythagorean way of life. The surviving evidence for his biography is sparse and often contradictory;…
Sappho
in 600 BC
2 moments here
Archaic Greek lyric poet from Lesbos, active from the late seventh into the early sixth century BC.…
Ptolemy
from 127 to 141
2 moments here
Claudius Ptolemy was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and music theorist.…
Moments
- 600 BC Departure from Mytilene into exile Sappho
- 600 BC Exile in Sicily Sappho
- 570 BC Birth and early years on Samos Pythagoras
- 530 BC Emigration to Croton Pythagoras
- 510 BC Departure from Croton amid anti-Pythagorean violence Pythagoras
- 510 BC Flight to Metapontum Pythagoras
- 490 BC Death at Metapontum Pythagoras
- 37 Birth at Antium Nero
- 54 Accession before the Praetorian cohort Nero
- 59 Festival stay at Baiae Nero
- 59 Meeting Agrippina at Bauli Nero
- 64 Stop at Beneventum Nero
- 64 At Antium when the Great Fire began Nero
- 64 Return to fire-stricken Rome Nero
- 66 Arrival at Cassiope Nero
- 66 Coronation of Tiridates in the Roman Forum Nero
- 67 Isthmian proclamation at Corinth Nero
- 67 Olympic chariot competition Nero
- 67 Triumphal-style return to Rome Nero
- 67 Victors' entry into Albanum Nero
- 67 Victors' entry into Antium Nero
- 67 Victors' entry into Naples Nero
- 67 Visit to Delphi Nero
- 68 At Naples when news of revolt arrived Nero
- 68 Panic return to Rome Nero
- 68 Flight to Phaon's villa and death Nero
- 127 Earliest exactly dated astronomical observation Ptolemy
- 141 Last exactly dated astronomical observation Ptolemy