Music, Poetry, and Architecture, All from Mathematics
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The poet Amphion rebuilt the streets
And temples, houses, and the stoa of
The ruined Cadmeia. His lyric beats
Were more for honing stonework than for love.
His lyre (a gift from Muses or the god
Apollo) Amphion employed for arts
Including architecture. That facade
Of Zeus’s temple and its pillared parts
Arose because of Amphion’s sung verse,
And all the other walls reared up because
Of poetry and melody — diverse
The powers of a perfect poet’s laws.
..His serenading and his lines caused strength
….Of architecture, stretched in columned length.