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Previous chapter The Platonic theoretical innovations have deeply transformed the concept of rhuthmós and determined the main features of the concept of rhythm as we still know it today. By subjugating the rhuthmós to an arithmetical métron, Plato enforced his doctrine of Forms against the previous doctrines based on improvised, temporary forms or variable ways of flowing. The apparently chaotic becoming, the multiple and changeable duration, could be henceforth regularly divided into series - Sur le concept de rythme – Nouvel article