Philosopher
Aristoxenus
Overview
Aristoxenus of Tarentum (Greek: Ἀριστόξενος ὁ Ταραντῖνος; born c. 375, fl. 335 BC) was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher, and a pupil of Aristotle. Most of his writings, which dealt with philosophy, ethics and music, have been lost, but one musical treatise, Elements of Harmony (Greek: Ἁρμονικὰ στοιχεῖα; Latin: Elementa harmonica), survives incomplete, as well as some fragments concerning rhythm and meter. The Elements is the chief source of our knowledge of ancient Greek music.
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Philosophers who discussed Aristoxenus
- Heraclides Ponticus
- Pythagoras
- Socrates
- Sappho
- Aristotle
- Dicaearchus
- Democritus
- Pherecydes of Syros
- Theophrastus
- Moderatus of Gades
- Eurytus (Pythagorean)
- Xenophilus (philosopher)
Ideas Aristoxenus discusses
- Symposium (ancient Greece)
- Oxyrhynchus Papyri
- Philosophy
- Latin
- Scholarch
- Music
- Praeparatio evangelica
- Plato
- Pythagoras
- Ptolemy
- Philolaus
- Archytas
- Socrates
- Soul
- Pythagoreanism
- Aristotle
- Aristocles of Messene
- Apulia
- Magna Graecia
- Dicaearchus
- Peripatetic school
- Taranto
- Cicero
- Classical element
Place in the tradition
Part of Democritus.