 When they talk about ‘music’ (mousikē), Plato and his contemporaries often have in mind a broader set of art forms than the ones we associate with music today. In this broad sense, mousikē denoted “a seamless complex of instrumental music, poetic word, and co-ordinated physical movement” (Murray &amp; Wilson 2004: 7). Plato sometimes also uses the term in a narrower sense to indicate melodic and rhythmic elements that we would consider today as properly musical (for a brief discussion of the broad and narrow sense of mousikē in Plato, see Schofield 2010: 230–231).