Reconstructing Damon

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Reconstructing Damon: Music, Wisdom Teaching, and Politics in Perikles’ Athens
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
Table of Contents
Abbreviations and References
Preface: Plato on Damon
Part I
	1: Teaching and wisdom counsel
		(A) DAMON AND ATHENS’ EARLY MUSIC SOPHOI
		(B) DAMON DIDASKALOS
		(C) SOPHOI, SOPHISTAI
		(D) DAMON ‘SOPHIST’ ?
	2: Êthos theories of music and poetic metre
		(A) FIFTH-CENTURY AFFECT THEORIES AND DAMON
		(B) THE AFFECTIVE QUALITIES OF HARMONIAI AND POETIC METRE
		(C) TECHNAI OF METRE AND MUSIC
		(D) MUSIC AND MEDICINE
		(E) EXPERIMENTATION
		(F) INSTRUMENTS
	3: Music and politics
		(A) DAMON’S OSTRACISM
		(B) MUSIC AND THE POLIS
	4: Damon after Plato
		(A) DAMON’S ‘AREOPAGITIKOS’
		(B) THE AREOPAGOS AND HERAKLEIDES OF PONTOS
		(C) ‘DAMON’S SCHOOL’ AND THE HARMONIKOI
	Conclusion
Part II
	Testimonia and Commentary
		TESTIMONIA (A): DAMON’S LIFE
			(i) Damon’s Deme
			(ii) Damon’s teachers
			(iii) Damon’s students and associates
			(iv) Other biographical reports
			(v) Damon’s Ostracism
		TESTIMONIA (B): DAMON’S THEORIES
			Testimonia (C): Damon’s followers
			Testimonia (D): Some passages possibly reflecting Damon’s influence
			Testimonia (E): Two passages of alleged Damonian influence
		APPENDIX 1: Did Damon publish?
		APPENDIX 2: Damon’s chronology
		APPENDIX 3: The êthos theory and Pythagoreanism
		APPENDIX 4: Four questions
			(a) Did Damon teach schoolboys?
			(b) Music experiments at symposia?
			(c) prepeia, homoiotês?
		Conspectus of Testimonia
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Index locorum
General Index