Verify Citation - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord

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Theopompus and Posidonius wrote that Pythagorean oligarchs such as the tyrant Athenion of Athens “at the first opportunity cast aside the mask of philosophy and became a tyrant.”[1]

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  1. Walter Burkert, Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism (Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1972), page unknown.