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Aristoxenus
Aristoxenus
c. 375 BCE–c. 315 BCE · Athens
Aristoxenus of Tarentum was a Greek philosopher and music theorist of the 4th century BCE, a pupil of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He is best known for his 'Elements of Harmonics,' the most important surviving ancient treatise on music theory, in which he treated harmony through the trained ear rather than purely through numerical ratios. He also wrote on rhythm and produced biographies of philosophers, now largely lost.
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The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
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