Which philosophy study was Metrodorus of Cos partly addicted to?
Metrodorus of Cos Metrodorus of Cos (Greek: Μητρόδωρος τῆς Κῶ ; fl. c. 460 BC) was the son of Epicharmus. Like several of his family he addicted himself partly to the study of Pythagorean philosophy, partly to the science of medicine. He wrote a treatise upon the works of Epicharmus, in which, on the authority of Epicharmus and Pythagoras himself, he maintained that the Doric was the proper dialect of the Orphic hymns.
Gretchen Reydams-Schils Gretchen Reydams-Schils is Professor of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, across the Departments of Philosophy and Theology. She is a specialist in Plato and the traditions of Platonism and Stoicism.