Damon after Plato
Damon after Plato
Philodemos’ statement that Damon may have given a speech to Athens’ Areopagos Council on music education led a century of scholars to attempt to reconstruct this text on the twin assumptions that most ancient mentions of Damon derived from this speech, which will have resembled the conservative Isokrates’ so-called Areopagiticus. Instead, Damon’s ‘Areopagitikos’ was probably invented in a philosophical dialogue written by Herakleides of Pontos in the later fourth century, when the polis first involved itself in pedagogy. A Damonian school, which at least in the later fourth and early third centuries was a branch of the harmonikoi, wrote about Damon, but the absence of any published works by Damon makes their statements about him doubtful.
Keywords: Philodemos, Areopagiticus, Areopagos council, Herakleides of Pontos, harmonikoi, Hibeh music papyrus, Aristoxenos
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