Damon (Ancient Greek:Δάμων,gen.: Δάμωνος), son of Damonides, was aGreek musicologist of the fifth century BC. He belonged to theAtheniandeme of Oē (sometimes spelled "Oa"). He is credited as teacher and advisor ofPericles.

Damon's expertise was supposed to bemusicology, though some believed this was a cover for a broader influence overPericles' political policy. For instance, Damon is said to have been responsible for advising Pericles to institute the policy of paying jurors for their service; this policy was widely criticized, and Damon is said to have beenostracized for it (see theAristotelianAthenaion Politeia), probably sometime in the last third of the 5th century BCE.

Plato invokes Damon many times in theRepublic as the musical expert to be deferred to concerning the details of rhythmical education. In Plato'sLaches, Damon is said to have been a student ofProdicus and of Agathocles. The former was an unabashedsophist, while the latter is said (in Plato'sProtagoras) to have used musical expertise as a front for being a sophist.

The extant texts of theAristotelianConstitution of the Athenians mention Damonides as an advisor toPericles. The mention there of "Damonides" is now almost universally considered an editorial slip of pen, where the original text read "Damon, son of Damonides" instead.^[1] This seems to be confirmed byostraka that have been recovered and that bear the name "Damon son of Damonides".

• List of speakers in Plato's dialogues

• Mosconi, Gianfranco (2023).Il consigliere segreto di Pericle. Damone e i meccanismi della democrazia ateniese. Pisa: Edizioni ETS.ISBN 9788846765390.
• Podlecki, A. J. (1997).Perikles and His Circle. Routledge.
• Wallace, Robert W. (1998).The Sophists in Athens. Harvard University Press.
• Wallace, Robert W. (2015).Reconstructing Damon: Music, Wisdom Teaching, and Politics in Pericles' Athens. Oxford University Press.

• Ancient Greek musicologists
• Ostracized Athenians
• 5th-century BC Athenians

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