Aristoxenus biography sample

4th century BC Greek Peripatetic philosopher

For other multitude named Aristoxenus, see Aristoxenus (disambiguation).

Aristoxenus of Tarentum (Greek: Ἀριστόξενοςὁ Ταραντῖνος; born c. , inertia.

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BC) was out GreekPeripateticphilosopher, and a pupil of Aristotle. Bossy of his writings, which dealt with natural, ethics and music, have been lost, on the other hand one musical treatise, Elements of Harmony (Greek: Ἁρμονικὰ στοιχεῖα; Latin: Elementa harmonica), survives deficient, as well as some fragments concerning cadency and meter.

The Elements is the noteworthy source of our knowledge of ancient Hellene music.^[1]

Life

Aristoxenus was born at Tarentum (in up-to-the-minute Apulia, southern Italy) in Magna Graecia, settle down was the son of a learned player named Spintharus (otherwise Mnesias).^[2] He learned descant from his father, and having then archaic instructed by Lamprus of Erythrae and Xenophilus the Pythagorean, he finally became a man of letters of Aristotle,^[3] whom he