kithara , auch: cithara

None of them could understand why Kithara had done it.

A young boy was singing somewhere to a kithara.

The kithara was a professional version of the two-stringed lyre.

The kithara was the virtuoso's instrument, generally known as taking a great deal of skill.

He plays the kithara and fights with a sword.

The word barbiton was frequently used for the kithara or lyre.

The lyre answered the kithara; a light breeze blew from the sea.

The word cithara came from the earlier Greek word kithara.

The requisite electric guitar, however, was replaced by an ancient Greek kithara.

He is shown as a young man, wearing a laurel wreath and playing the kithara (lyre).

Sappho is closely associated with music, especially string instruments like the kithara and the barbitos.

The sash below his kithara sways with the rhythm of his song.

Paeans meant to be sung on the battlefield were accompanied by aulos and kithara.

Adam Weisman was playing the surrogate kithara.

People laughed or shrugged, saying young Dionysios had run through a dozen crackpot whims already; we should get back to find him learning the kithara.

The lyre, kithara, aulos, hydraulis and trumpet all found their way into the music of ancient Rome.

The kithara's origins are likely Asiatic.

Originally, the lyre had only five to seven strings(see also the Kithara, a larger form), so only a single tetrachord was needed.

Cycladic marble figures show the use of both the musical pipe and the kithara form of lyre.

Joseph Justus Scaliger was probably the first writer to draw attention to the difference between the chelys and the kithara.

Other attributes of his included the kithara (an advanced version of the common lyre), the plectrum and the sword.

Instruments included the double-reed aulos and the plucked string instrument, the lyre, especially the special kind called a kithara.

Some of the crowd turned to look at the new arrival, but most continued to cluster around the bearded man who had taken a kithara from the youth.

As opposed to the simpler lyre, which was a folk-instrument, the kithara was primarily used by professional musicians, called kitharodes.

The barbiton was a bass version of the kithara popular in the eastern Aegean and ancient Asia Minor.