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Sicyonian Register is the name given to a lost public record (anagraphe) kept at Sicyon in the northern Peloponnese, known only from two citations in the treatise On Music transmitted under the name of Plutarch. According to these passages, one of them citing Heraclides of Pontus, the register listed the priestesses at Argos together with poets and musicians, and it credited Amphion with the invention of lyre-singing and Clonas with the three-part nome.
Records of this kind gave the Greeks a framework for dating early poets and for assigning inventions to named figures. The Sicyonian register is an important source for the early history of Greek music, as ancient scholars reconstructed it. Its date is unknown, but it was already cited by Heraclides in the fourth century BC.
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