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Did you know that Achilles was a great lyre player? That even Alexander the Great was striving to become a great lyre player?
In this episode of our animated series, we meet the two great heroes, along with Odysseus, Agamemnon, and the legendary centaur Cheiron. We discover why learning the lyre was considered equal to mathematics and war tactics education. After all, to become a legendary hero you need a holistic education, and the lyre is a crucial part of that.
The lyres used for this episode's music were masterfully handcrafted in Greece by the LUTHIEROS family. This story, among hundreds of others, can be found in the book "The Song of the Lyre" available at luthieros.com/the_song
👀 Watch the full mini-series at youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcMWkAbRJunFi1ahv3DJbIbjod3WVJBKj
⚪ Order the book at luthieros.com/the_song
⚫ Find the perfect lyre for you at luthieros.com
🔵 Learn how to play the lyre and other ancient musical instruments at
lyreacademy.com/choose-your-next-course
🎬 SEIKILO team
Art Direction & Concept Creation by Nikolaos Koumartzis
Script by Fotis Giantsios
Voiceover Jarrett Raymond
Animation by Hashir Ahmed
Sound design by George Ayman
Subtitles by Feraia Nikolaou
Music by SEIKILO Affiliate Artists
Song selection by Evagoras Bekiaris and Nikolaos Koumartzis
Special thanks to Evagoras Bekiaris and Feraia Nikolaou for their participation in the initial stage of the sound design.
📃 ✍🏼 Transcript
The Lyre of Achilles
It was May 334 BC when Alexander the Great crossed the Hellespont and began his conquest of the great Persian Empire. But he could not pass by Ilium, where the great heroes of the Iliad had lived, fought, and died, to pay his respects to Achilles’ tomb.
“Would the king like to see the lyre of Paris?” he was asked.
“I care nothing for it,” Alexander replied. But I wish to see Achilles's lyre, with which he sang the deeds of heroes.”
For Achilles, one of the greatest Greek heroes, was renowned for his lyre-playing as well. It was taught to him by the wise centaur Cheiron, a friend of his father’s, who instructed the young prince in all those things that a future king should know. War, mathematics, and, of course, music...
And when the call came, and Achilles sailed to Troy, knowing he would perish there, what need did he have of earthly riches? And so, when he laid siege to Cilician Thebes, the city of Eetion, Andromache’s father, he refused all spoils but one. An ornate lyre, that would be his companion in the decade-long war.
And when bitter disagreement rose outside the walls of Troy, and Achilles retreated to his tent, taking the oath never to fight for the Greeks again, he put away his tools of war and picked up his lyre, to calm his spirits and bring joy to his companion, Patroclus. And playing his sweet lyre, his only spoils, did the envoys of Agamemnon, Odysseus, and Nestor find him later, when they came to beg him to once more join them in battle and fight for the Greeks. But Achilles’ wrath was too great.
Only when his dear Patroclus was killed by the hand of brave Hector did Achilles put his lyre aside and once again picked up his sword and spear. And he threw himself into the fight, his mind filled only with revenge, forgetting his lyre, since the one he played it for was with him no more.
But his fate was sealed. And where the greatest of the Greeks fell, a monument was erected, a mausoleum where he could forever rest at the side of his companion. And next to it would lie, until the days of Alexander, the instrument of his youth, his only spoils of war, the soother of his soul. His lyre.
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Did you know that Achilles was a great lyre player? That even Alexander the Great was striving to become a great lyre player?
In this episode of our animated series, we meet the two great heroes, along with Odysseus, Agamemnon, and the legendary centaur Cheiron. We discover why learning the lyre was considered equal to mathematics and war tactics education. After all, to become a legendary hero you need a holistic education, and the lyre is a crucial part of that.
The lyres used for this episode's music were masterfully handcrafted in Greece by the LUTHIEROS family. This story, among hundreds of others, can be found in the book "The Song of the Lyre" available at luthieros.com/the_song
👀 Watch the full mini-series at youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcMWkAbRJunFi1ahv3DJbIbjod3WVJBKj
⚪ Order the book at luthieros.com/the_song
⚫ Find the perfect lyre for you at luthieros.com
🔵 Learn how to play the lyre and other ancient musical instruments at
lyreacademy.com/choose-your-next-course
🎬 SEIKILO team
Art Direction & Concept Creation by Nikolaos Koumartzis
Script by Fotis Giantsios
Voiceover Jarrett Raymond
Animation by Hashir Ahmed
Sound design by George Ayman
Subtitles by Feraia Nikolaou
Music by SEIKILO Affiliate Artists
Song selection by Evagoras Bekiaris and Nikolaos Koumartzis
Special thanks to Evagoras Bekiaris and Feraia Nikolaou for their participation in the initial stage of the sound design.
📃 ✍🏼 Transcript
The Lyre of Achilles
It was May 334 BC when Alexander the Great crossed the Hellespont and began his conquest of the great Persian Empire. But he could not pass by Ilium, where the great heroes of the Iliad had lived, fought, and died, to pay his respects to Achilles’ tomb.
“Would the king like to see the lyre of Paris?” he was asked.
“I care nothing for it,” Alexander replied. But I wish to see Achilles's lyre, with which he sang the deeds of heroes.”
For Achilles, one of the greatest Greek heroes, was renowned for his lyre-playing as well. It was taught to him by the wise centaur Cheiron, a friend of his father’s, who instructed the young prince in all those things that a future king should know. War, mathematics, and, of course, music...
And when the call came, and Achilles sailed to Troy, knowing he would perish there, what need did he have of earthly riches? And so, when he laid siege to Cilician Thebes, the city of Eetion, Andromache’s father, he refused all spoils but one. An ornate lyre, that would be his companion in the decade-long war.
And when bitter disagreement rose outside the walls of Troy, and Achilles retreated to his tent, taking the oath never to fight for the Greeks again, he put away his tools of war and picked up his lyre, to calm his spirits and bring joy to his companion, Patroclus. And playing his sweet lyre, his only spoils, did the envoys of Agamemnon, Odysseus, and Nestor find him later, when they came to beg him to once more join them in battle and fight for the Greeks. But Achilles’ wrath was too great.
Only when his dear Patroclus was killed by the hand of brave Hector did Achilles put his lyre aside and once again picked up his sword and spear. And he threw himself into the fight, his mind filled only with revenge, forgetting his lyre, since the one he played it for was with him no more.
But his fate was sealed. And where the greatest of the Greeks fell, a monument was erected, a mausoleum where he could forever rest at the side of his companion. And next to it would lie, until the days of Alexander, the instrument of his youth, his only spoils of war, the soother of his soul. His lyre.
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