Metrodorus of Cos ( Greek: Μητρόδωρος τῆς Κῶ; fl. c. 460 BC) was the son of Epicharmus. Like several of his family he addicted himself partly to the study of Pythagorean philosophy, partly to the science of medicine. He wrote a treatise upon the works of Epicharmus, in which, on the authority of Epicharmus and Pythagoras himself, he maintained that the Doric was the proper dialect of the Orphic hymns. [1]
Notes
- ^ Iamblichus, The Life of Pythagoras 34.241–2.
References
- Iamblichus, The Life of Pythagoras, translated by Kenneth Sylvan Launfal Guthrie, Alpine, New Jersey, Platonist Press, 1919. Online version at ToposText.
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Smith, William,
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873).
Metrodo'rus, literary (1).
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