Biography: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.

References

• Iamblichus, The Life of Pythagoras, translated by Kenneth Sylvan Launfal Guthrie, Alpine, New Jersey, Platonist Press, 1919. Online version at ToposText.
• Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Metrodo'rus, literary (1). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.