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Ancient Greeks used music to treat mental illnesses. Plato would’ve loved playlists.

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Greek writers linked music to mood and “harmony” in the body, and some healing traditions used instruments and chant as part of ritual care. It’s an early ancestor of what we’d now call music-based therapy—even if the mechanisms weren’t understood scientifically.

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