The ancient Greeks were famous for their music, including choral singing. (As I understand it, Pindar’s Odes were meant to be sung, not merely recited.) But, for all their brilliance, they never invented any system of musical notation. Have archaeologists or musicians ever been able to reconstruct any of their music?
I don’t know anything about the musical notation (or lack thereof), but I can make one point regarding the singing. Classical Greek is a tone language, and poets took advantage of this. Which means that the skillfully-written poem, when recited, has a very musical feel to it. Perhaps some of our more qualified classicists on the board can elaborate further.
!!! What, like Chines? Cite?
You got me curious so I did a few google searches and came up with this page, complete with some mp3s.
And for the tonality of Greek, it’s mentioned in the Wikipedia post about Tonal languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonal_language
Knowing what the tuning system sounds like isn’t the same as hearing the music. Knowing how a guitar is tuned doesn’t explain what Hendrix sounded like.
But since the Greeks invented mp1s to play on their iotapods, you can listen for yourself if you can find a slave to power one up.
This is an excellent cd of music from ancient Greece. It’s been in my own collection for years.
Sure they did. Early notation used letters of the Greek alphabet, and significant fragments still exist today.
Some scholars maintain that this is a mistranslation and the ancient Greeks actually invented the moonpie, rather than the mu-pi.
I’ve WONDERED what happened to the mp1. My SO wonders if you have an extra one. Of course I’m the slave running on the treadmill! 
What does it sound like? Is there anything more broadly familiar to which you would compare it?
Sorry to be the voice of cynicism, but it sounds like a determined attempt to sound like something old. It tells us nothing at all about how ancient Greek music actually sounded.
Actually, download the file with the etudes. I thought that provided a nice sampling.
I didn’t know the ancient Greeks made use of such exotic (to my ears) fractional tones, like those “enharmonic” steps, which, despite the name, clearly are not the same pitch, but rather increase in pitch by what must be quite a bit less than a semitone. It makes some of those glissandi sound like someone is banging the same string over and over while bending it discretely. Interesting effect.
I hate to say it, but I find it a little tedious.