Praxidamas
Πραξιδάμας
(Πραξιδάμας).
1. A writer on poetry or music, probably the latter. Suidas is the only author who expressly mentions him (s. v. ψιάζειν). Harpocration (s. v. Μουσαῖος) seems to allude to memoirs of Praxidamas, written by Aristoxenus. He must, therefore, have lived between the time of Democritus, B. C. 460, and that of Aristoxenus, B. C. 320. (See Jonsius, de Script. Hist. Phil. 1.14. 8, &c.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.