Table of Contents

Preface: Plato on Damon
Abbreviations and References
Introduction
Part I
1: Teaching and Wisdom Counsel
2: Damon's Êthos Theories of Music and Poetic Meter
3: Music and Politics
4: Damon after Plato
Conclusion
Part II
Testimonia and Commentary
Appendix 1: Did Damon Publish?
Appendix 2: Damon's Chronology
Appendix 3: The Êthos Theory
Appendix 4: Four Questions
Conspectus of Testimonia
Select Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index

About the Author

Robert W. Wallace is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University. A graduate of Columbia, Oxford, and Harvard, he has written or edited seven books and some 85 articles in the fields of Greek history, literature, law, music theory, and coinage. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Siena, Pisa, Urbino, Trento, Halle, and the American School of Classical Studies, Athens. He has lectured widely in Europe and North America.

Reviews

Wallace's Reconstructing Damon serves as an excellent incitement to re-investigate the intellectual and political milieu of mid-fifth-century Athens, as well as to basic (and timely)questions about expertise and political manipulation.
*Christopher Moore, Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought*

In conclusion, Wallace has done the scholarly community a good service in sharing the results of his 30 years' work on Damon and his book will shape the image of this important Athenian intellectual for many generations. ... Wallace's book certainly represents the best tool currently available to make further progress in understanding the legacy of this wondrous 'sophist in disguise'.
*Tosca Lynch, Greek and Roman Musical Studies*