Damon of Athens

Damon of Athens in Wikipedia

Damon, son of Damonides, was a Greek musicologist of the fifth century BC. He belonged to the Athenian deme of Oē (sometimes spelled "Oa"). He is credited as teacher and advisor of Pericles. Music Damon's expertise was supposed to be musicology, though some believed this was a cover for a broader influence over Pericles' political policy. For inst...

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Damon in arpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

An Athenian sophist, the teacher of Pericles and perhaps of Socrates (Diog. Laert. ii. 19)....

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