Aristeus (ancient Greece)

Aristeus or Aristeas (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστέας) is the name of a number of people from classical antiquity. It may refer to:

  • Aristeus, 5th century BCE Corinthian general
  • Aristeus, son of Pellichus (possibly the same Pellichus immortalized in one of the sculptures of Demetrius of Alopece), also a military general from Corinth, was one of the commanders of the Corinthian fleet sent against Epidamnos in 436 BCE.[1]
  • Aristeus, a military commander from Sparta active around 423 BCE.[2]
  • Aristeus of Argos, son of Cheimon, won in the Dolichos event at the ancient Olympic games.[3]

References
  1. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.29
  2. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.132
  3. Pausanias, Description of Greece 6.9.1

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Aristeus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 297.

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