Michael Levy | Echoes of Ancient Greece | Lamentations of the Algea @MichaelLevyMusic | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
"Lamentations of the Algea" - a live performance of track 5 from my 2021 album, "Echoes of Ancient Greece". Available from all the usual digital music platforms, CD quality audio is also available from Bandcamp:

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This piece is a sorrowful piece for solo lyre, in the distinctively poignant ancient Greek Phrygian Mode.

The Algea were were the personifications of sorrow in Greek mythology, daughters of the goddess of strife, Eris. They were related to Oizys, god of misery, and Penthos, god of mourning. Their opposites were the goddess of pleasure, Hedone, and the Charites, goddesses of joy.

There were three Algea; Lype, personification of pain, grief and distress; Ania, personification of distress, sorrow, and boredom; and Achus, personification of anguish.

The beatiful lyre I am playing, is the "Lyre of Thamyris" - hand-made in modern Greece by Luthieros:

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