An interesting question is how much of ancient greek music might be still with us (without being explicitly identified as such). With the collapse of the ancie

An interesting question is how much of ancient greek music might be still with us (without being explicitly identified as such). With the collapse of the ancient world and the spread of Christianity in the Eastern Med various elements of the Grecoroman civilization were actively supressed, but evidently not all (e.g. the language survived and evolved). Some terminology around musical modes that developed in medieval Europe is attributed to ancient Greece but its not clear how close the musical connection between these two worlds. On the other hand, Byzantine chant and a rich collection of folk musics are still practiced in the broader region and may be echoes of that earlier musical universe.