1. Moses says that the discoverer of the art of music was Jubal, who
was of the family of Cain and lived before the flood. But the Greeks
say that Pythagoras discovered the beginnings of this art from the
sound of hammers and the striking of tense cords. Others assert that
Linus of Thebes, and Zethus, and Amphion, were the first to win fame
in the musical art.
2. After whose time this science in particular was gradually
established and enlarged in many ways, and it was as disgraceful to
be ignorant of music as of letters. And it had a place not only
at sacred rites, but at all ceremonies and in all things glad or
sorrowful.