A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Ἀριστόξενος), a philosopher of the Peripatetic school. The date of his birth is not known; but from the account of Suidas, and from incidental notices in other writers, we learn that he was born at Tarentum, and was the son of a learned musician named Spintharus (otherwise Mnesias). (Aelian, Ael. NA 2.11.) He learnt music from his father, and having been afterwards instructed by Lamprus of Erythrae and Xenophilus the Pythagorean, finally became a disciple of Aristotle (Gel. 4.11; Cic. Tusc. Disp. 1.18), whom he appears to have rivalled in the variety of his studies, though probably not in the success with which he prosecuted them.

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