Aulos

In the middle, on a raised platform, Apollo plucked at his kithara, a seven-stringed lyre, while Dionysus blew on his double-reeded aulos. ❋ JOAN HOLUB (2010)

The satyr, finding an aulos, a flute that had been discarded by Athena, recklessly challenged Apollo, god of music and master of the lyre, to what the jazzmen call a cutting contest, to see which one of them was more adept on his instrument. ❋ Mark Jacobson (2010)

The aulos, or Greek pipe sometimes mistakenly called a flute, was a cylinder with finger holes, sounded with a reed. ❋ Barry Strauss (2004)

Lyric poetry, properly defined, was a distinct branch of what was classified as "melic" poetry (the term roughly translates as "melody" or "air"), strictly differentiated from poetic genres that were meant to be recited without instrumentation or performed with other instruments such as the flute and the oboe-like aulos. ❋ Unknown (1998)

My interpretation is supported by information supplied by a colleague in the Classics Department, to the effect that there is a Greek expression for a flute which might be transliterated as aulos. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1988)

With banners and standards streaming, with shrill flutes and the deep-toned aulos giving the time, the royal army of Macedon marched through the high western hills towards Epiros. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1981)

I saw his parents look sideways; some people think the aulos is no instrument for a gentleman. ❋ Renault, Mary (1978)

The sound of the aulos, the cithara, and the syrinx belong to the Devil's pomp, said John Chrysostom around A.D. ❋ REINHOLD HAMMERSTEIN (1968)

We walked on, visiting a booth of dancing dwarfs, a concert in the mixolydian mode for double-flute, aulos and kithara; a diviner who foretold the winner of the stade race by casting pebbles (the morrow proved him wrong), and even, briefly, a lawyer's exposition of how he could win his client's case when justice, law, public opinion and all the evidence were on the other side. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)

I noticed again his expressive voice, like a low-pitched aulos played by a master. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)

Toward sunset I heard the funeral coming down the long stairs, with dirges and weeping and the aulos 'skirl, and disks of bronze clanging together. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)

On the edge of the floor was the music, the tambours and the cytheras, the cymbals and Egyptian harps, the skirling pipes from the aulos to the little flute of ivory whose fine sound flickers like a snake's forked tongue. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)

Streamers hung lazily aloft from masts and yards, prows and sterns, whilst flutes and lyres, syrinx and clarionet, kithra and aulos sent forth the soft Ionian music until the shores were wrapt in softest harmony. ❋ Richard Short (N/A)

The verb used here for "blowing" is [Greek: phusan], the very word applied to blowing or inflating the bellows ([Greek: phusa]), and not the usual verb [Greek: aulein], to play the aulos. ❋ Various (N/A)

The flute or aulos does not seem to have been used in connection with the cithara at all, and the Greeks had nothing corresponding to what we call an orchestra. ❋ Unknown (1874)

The aulos was appropriate to certain religious services and to certain festivals, and it had a moderate status in the various contests of the national games, but the great instrument of ❋ Unknown (1874)

Oedipus Rex, Medea Terms: The City of Dionysia Festival in Athens, tragedy, anagnorisis, pompe, phalloi, Dithyramb contest, aulos, lyre, cither Audio of the aulos and cithara - Stefan ❋ Unknown (2010)