Reconstructing Damon: Music, Wisdom Teaching, and Politics in Perikles' Athens

by Robert W. Wallace

Fifth-century Athenian musical and political theorist Damon was the first to study music's psychological, behavioural, and political effects, profoundly influencing debates on music theory throughout antiquity. Considered by Isokrates to be the most intelligent Athenian of his age, Damon worked alongside Perikles during the most vibrant decades of Athens' democracy. Probably using fourth-century BC sources, Olympiodoros records that 'Damon taught...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199685738
• ISBN13: 9780199685738
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"