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monophony
Music consisting of a single unaccompanied melodic line. The concept often also includes melody that is accompanied by a drone of by drumming. Most of the world's folk music was essentially monophonic until contact with Western polyphony.
Xenophon
Greek historian. Born of a well-to-do Athenian family, Xenophon was critical of extreme democracy and for a time was exiled as a traitor. The great experience of his life was serving with the Greek mercenaries of the Persian prince Cyrus, on which he based his best-known work, the Anabasis. Its prose was highly regarded in antiquity and exerted a strong influence on Latin literature. His other works include On Horsemanship; On Hunting; Cyropaedia, a historical novel about Cyrus the Great; Oeconomicus, a treatise on estate management; and his completion of a work of Thucydides.
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