Aristocritus

Aristocritus (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστόκριτος) is the name of several people of the ancient world. It can refer to:

  • Aristocritus, the father of the Spartan general Lysander.[1] This Aristocritus was a member of the Spartan Heracleidae; that is, he claimed descent from the mythological demigod Heracles but was not a member of any royal family.
  • Aristocritus (actor), an actor sent as an emissary from Pixodarus to offer his daughter's hand in marriage to a son of Philip II of Macedon
  • Aristocritus, son of Charixenus of Argos, won the Dolichos and Diaulos in the Lycian games.[2]
  • Aristocritus, a man described in one of the speeches of Lysias as a bystander who gets hit in the head with a rock intended for the defendant in Lysias's narrative.[3][4]
  • Aristocritus, a writer of probably around the first century BCE who, according to Clement of Alexandria, wrote a book attacking the works of Heracleodorus.[5]
  • Aristocritus, a Greek writer who was known to have written a work about Miletus.[6] He was quoted by both Parthenius of Nicaea[7] and Pliny the Elder.[8]
  • Aristocritus, an otherwise unknown Athenian of the fifth century BCE whose well-preserved tombstone, describing him as having been slain by the god Ares, is a subject for study by scholars.[9]
  • Aristocritus (writer), a writer of the fifth century who wrote a work titled Theosophy.

References
  1. Mitchell, Lynette G. (2 May 2002). Greeks Bearing Gifts: The Public Use of Private Relationships in the Greek World, 435-323 BC. Cambridge University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-521-89330-5.. Some manuscript sources have "Aristocleitus," but "Aristocritus" appears in contemporary inscriptions, e.g. Inscriptiones Graecae II2 1388, l. 32.
  2. Potter, David (2012). "Getting in Shape and Turning Pro". A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium. Oxford University Press. p. 157. ISBN 9780199842735. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  3. Wakker, Gerry C. (2009). "'Well I Will Now Present My Arguments': Discourse Cohesion Marked by ὀυν and τοίνυν in Lysias". Discourse Cohesion in Ancient Greek. Brill Publishers. p. 74. ISBN 9789004182202. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  4. Edwards, Michael J. (2021). "Suspense in Lysias". In Konstantakos, Ioannis M.; Liotsakis, Vasileios (eds.). Suspense in Ancient Greek Literature. De Gruyter. p. 312. ISBN 9783110715521. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  5. Curnow, Trevor (2006). The Philosophers of the Ancient World: An A-Z Guide. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781849667708. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  6. Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, i. 186
  7. Parthenius of Nicaea c. 11
  8. Pliny the Elder, Natural History v. 31 § 37
  9. Ferrario, Sarah Brown (2014). "Individuals and groups in the commemorative vocabulary of late fifth-century Athens (c.440-396)". Historical Agency and the 'Great Man' in Classical Greece. Cambridge University Press. pp. 171–173. ISBN 9781316061114. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
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