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Archutas
Adler number: alpha,4121
Translated headword: Archytas, Arkhutas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of Taras,[1] son of Hestiaios or Mnesarchos or Mnasagetes or Mnasagoras; Pythagorean philosopher. This man saved
Plato from being murdered by the tyrant Dionysios.[2] He championed the [Greek-]Italian federation, and was chosen general with full powers by his fellow-citizens and the [other] Greeks of the region. At the same time he taught philosophy and had celebrated pupils and wrote many books. [It is said that] this man was plainly a teacher of
Empedocles.[3]
And [there is] a proverb:
Archytas' rattle;[4] [coined] because
Archytas invented the rattle, which is a kind of instrument producing sound and noise.[5]
"He made a bronze rattle and rattled it".[6]
Archutas, Tarantinos, Hestiaiou huios ê Mnêsarchou ê Mnasagetou ê Mnasagorou, philosophos Puthagorikos. houtos Platôna esôse mê phoneuthênai hupo Dionusiou tou turannou. tou koinou de tôn Italiôtôn proestê, stratêgos hairetheis autokratôr hupo tôn politôn kai tôn peri ekeinon ton topon Hellênôn. hama de kai philosophian ekpaideuôn mathêtas t' endoxous esche kai biblia sunegrapse polla. touton phanerôs genesthai didaskalon Empedokleous. kai paroimia: Archutou platagê: hoti Archutas platagên heuren, hêtis estin eidos organou êchon kai psophon apotelountos. ho de platagên chalkeusamenos eplatagei.
Notes:
First half of C4 BCE. See in brief OCD(4) s.v. (p.145); in full Huffman (below). The present entry draws for its opening sentences on
Diogenes Laertius 8.79.
[1] Roman
Tarentum (present-day Taranto), in S. Italy; cf.
tau 112 and
tau 113.
[2] Dionysios II of Syracuse. See generally
delta 1179.
[3] Chronologically impossible as it stands; and even changing "teacher" to "pupil" leaves a gap.
[4] See e.g.
Aristotle,
Politics 1340b26.
[5] cf.
Diogenianus 2.98.
[6] For this definition of the rattle, and the appended quotation, see again
pi 1697 (and cf.
pi 1712). The quotation has been tentatively attributed to
Nicolaus of Damascus (
nu 393); in any event its subject is evidently the sixth Labour of Herakles, the Stymphalian Birds.
Carl A. Huffman, Archytas of Tarentum (Cambridge UP 2005)
Keywords: biography; daily life; geography; military affairs; meter and music; mythology; philosophy; politics; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 August 2001@07:10:23.
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