- Metrodorus of Cos
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For other people of the same name, see Metrodorus.
Metrodorus of Cos, lived 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, Vit. Pyth. c. 34.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
Categories:- 5th-century BC Greek people
- 5th-century BC philosophers
- Ancient Greek philosophers
- Ancient Greek physicians
- Pythagoreans
- Ancient Koans
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