Aristodemus (disambiguation)

• Aristodemus of Messenia (8th century BC), hero of the First Messenian War
• Aristodemus of Cumae (6th century BC), strategos and tyrant of Cumae
• Aristodemus of Sparta (5th century BC), Spartan warrior
• Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum (5th century BC), follower of Socrates depicted in Plato's Symposium
• Aristodemus of Miletus (4th century BC), diplomat
• Aristodemus (actor) (4th century BC), a different diplomat, who had a background as a tragic actor
• Aristodemus the Good or Aristodemus of Megalopolis (3rd century BC), tyrant of Megalopolis who was assassinated around 252 BC

• Aristodemus of Nysa the Elder (1st century BC), Ancient Greek grammarian and pedagogue
• Aristodemus of Nysa the Younger (1st century BC), Ancient Greek scholar and pedagogue, teacher of Strabo
• Aristodemus of Elis, an obscure writer working some time before the 2nd century
• Aristodemus of Thebes, author, see List of anthologies of Greek epigrams

There are many passages in ancient texts in which "Aristodemus" occurs as the name of the writer, but no distinguishing epithet is added, so it is impossible to say whether the Aristodemus indicated is identical with any of those mentioned above, or distinct from them.

• Plutarch in his Parallel Lives speaks of an Aristodemus as the author of a collection of fables, one of which he relates.[1]
• Plutarch elsewhere speaks of a Platonic philosopher named Aristodemus who lived at the same time as Plutarch.[2]
• Another Aristodemus was mentioned by Athenaeus as the author of a work titled γελοῖα ἀπομνημονεύματα.[3]
• A third Aristodemus, occurs in Clement of Alexandria's Stromata as the author of a work titled περὶ εὑπημάτων.[4]
• A fourth Aristodemus is mentioned as the epitomizer of a work of Herodian.[5]

• Aristodemus, a painter, the father and instructor of Nicomachus of Thebes, flourished probably in the early part of the fourth century BCE.[6]
• Aristodemus, a sculptor, who lived after the time of Alexander the Great, that is, some time around the 3rd century BCE. Among other works of his Pliny the Elder mentions a statue of Seleucus I Nicator. To what country he belonged is uncertain.[7]
• Aristodemus, a painter and art historian, a native of Caria, contemporary with Philostratus the elder, with whom he was connected by the ties of hospitality. He wrote a work giving an account of distinguished painters, of the cities in which painting had flourished most, and of the kings who had encouraged the art.[8]