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Aristoxenus of Cyrene

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Aristoxenus, the Cyrenaic philosopher, practiced literally the system of philosophy which arose in his country, and from him a kind of ham specially prepared is called Aristoxenus; in his excess of luxury he used to water the lettuce in his garden at evening with wine and honey, and taking them up in
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He was somewhat infamous for his love of luxury and gluttony, from which he was given the
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relates that there was in fact a kind of ham called an "Aristoxenus" named after him.
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the morning used to say that they were blanched cakes produced by the earth for him.
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The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life
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Of his time, we know only that he lived in or before the second century CE.
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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The Philosophers of the Ancient World: An A-Z Guide
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Index

Ancient Greek
ancient Greece
peripatetic school
Cyrene, Libya
Cyrenaics
Diogenes Laërtius
Plato
epithet
Athenaeus
The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life
Princeton University Press
ISBN
9780691176383
"Aristoxenus of Cyrene"
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN
9780715634974
Athenaeus
Deipnosophistae
Suda
public domain
Schmitz, Leonhard
"Aristoxenus(2)"
Smith, William
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
Categories
Peripatetic philosophers
Cyrenaic philosophers
Hellenistic-era philosophers from Africa

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