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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.