Aristóxeno de Tarento contra Sócrates e Platão.

da Rocha Júnior, Roosevelt Araújo

Aristoxenus of Tarentum (375-335 BC) was one of Aristotle’s most important students. He was best known for his treatises on musical theory, including the Elements of Harmonic Theory. However, Aristoxenus was also notable as a great author of biographies of personalities such as Pythagoras, Archytas, Socrates and Plato. Unfortunately, only fragments of these works have reached us. However, from reading these fragments we can derive very interesting information about the biographies of these philosophers and the way they were portrayed in Antiquity. Furthermore, we can also reach some conclusions about Aristoxenus’ position regarding Socratic-Platonic theories. In this paper I will discuss the information contained in the fragments of biographies that Aristoxenus wrote about Socrates and Plato and what would be his point of view on these authors would be.

MUSIC theory; BIOGRAPHIES of authors; SOCRATES, ca. 469-399 B.C.; PLATO, 428-347 B.C.; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form); PHILOSOPHERS; PLATONISTS

DoisPontos, 2024, Vol 21, Issue 2, p193

1807-3883

Academic Journal

10.5380/dp.v21i2.94725