epigonion
Sign in to savethumb|Epigonion Greek harp, circa 430 B.C. This style of harp is not named in artworks and has also been called trigonon by modern researchers. The epigonion () was an ancient stringed instrument, possibly a Greek harp mentioned in Athenaeus (183 AD), probably a psaltery.
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thumb|Epigonion Greek harp, circa 430 B.C. This style of harp is not named in artworks and has also been called trigonon by modern researchers. The epigonion () was an ancient stringed instrument, possibly a Greek harp mentioned in Athenaeus (183 AD), probably a psaltery.
==Description== The epigonion was invented, or at least introduced into Greece, by Epigonus of Ambracia, a Greek musician of Ambracia in Epirus, who was admitted to citizenship at Sicyon as a recognition of his great musical ability and of his having been the first to pluck the strings with his fingers, instead of using the plectrum. The instrument, which Epigonus named after himself, had forty strings.