Metrodorus of Cos explained

Metrodorus of Cos (Greek, Modern (1453-);: 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.^[1]

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).

Notes and References

1. [Iamblichus]