Editing Aristoxenus (section)

==Life==
Aristoxenus was born at [[Taranto|Tarentum]] (in modern-day [[Apulia]], southern Italy) in [[Magna Graecia]], and was the son of a learned musician named Spintharus (otherwise Mnesias).<ref name=suda>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=[[Suda]] |title=Aristoxenos |edition=Aelian |at=''H. A.'' ii. 11}}</ref> He learned music from his father, and having then been instructed by [[Lamprus of Erythrae]] and [[Xenophilus (philosopher)|Xenophilus the Pythagorean]], he finally became a pupil of [[Aristotle]],<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Aulus Gellius]] |title={{grey|[no title cited]}} |at=iv. 11}}; {{cite book |author=[[Marcus Tullius Cicero]] |title=[[Tusculanae Disputationes]] |at=i. 18}}</ref> whom he appears to have rivaled in the variety of his studies.

According to the ''[[Suda]]'',<ref name=suda/> he heaped insults on Aristotle after his death, because Aristotle had designated [[Theophrastus]] as the next [[scholarch|head]] of the [[Peripatetic school]], a position which Aristoxenus himself had coveted, having achieved great distinction as a pupil of Aristotle. This story is, however, contradicted by [[Aristocles of Messene|Aristocles]], who asserts that he only ever mentioned Aristotle with the greatest respect. Nothing is known of his life after the time of Aristotle's departure, apart from a comment in ''Elementa Harmonica'' concerning his works.<ref>{{cite book |author=Aristocles ap. Eusebius |title=[[Praeparatio Evangelica]] |at=xv. 2}}</ref><ref name="A. Barker">
{{cite book
 |first=A. |last=Barker
 |year=2007
 |title=The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece
 |publisher=Cambridge University Press
 |place=Cambridge, UK
 |isbn=978-1139468626
 |quote=[ed.:] No more of his life-history is known ...&nbsp;.
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xRM9WLpswiEC&dq=Elementa+Harmonica&pg=PA113
 |access-date=2015-05-03
}}
</ref>