Limenius

 ( 2nd-century Bc Athenians ) 

Limenius (; ) was an Athens composer of and prosodia. As creator of the Delphic Hymns in 128 BC, he is the earliest known composer in recorded history for a surviving piece of music, or one of the two earliest, or the second-earliest, depending first on whether one accepts the proposition of Bélis,Bélis, Annie. 1988. "A proposito degli 'Inni delfici' ad Apollo", In La musica in Grecia: Convegno internazionale su la musica greca antica (1985: Urbino), edited by Bruno Gentili, Roberto Pretagostini, and Andrew Barker. Storia e Società. Rome-Bari: Editori Laterza. . that the composer of the First Delphic Hymn is named Athenaeus and, second, whether that hymn was composed in the same year as the Second Hymn, or ten years earlier. Limenius was a performer on the Cithara and, as a professional musician performing in the Pythaïs (the liturgical embassy to the cult centre of Apollo at Delphi), he was required to belong to one of the guilds of the Artists of Dionysus.

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