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Aristoxenus of Tarentum

Aristoxenus

also: Aristoxenus

Aristoxenus of Tarentum (fl. later 4th c. BC), pupil of Aristotle and the most important ancient theorist of music, who held that the soul was a kind of harmony or attunement of the body. Cicero pairs him with Dicaearchus as a byword for genuine learning at Att. 8.4.

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Mentioned in 4 works (4 total)

On the Orator rhetoric · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 8.4 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 13.32 letters · 1 mention
On the Ends of Good and Evil philosophy · 1 mention

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