=Aristocrătes=, a king of Arcadia, put to death by his subjects for offering violence to the priestess of Diana. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 5.――――His grandson, of the same name, was stoned to death for taking bribes, during the second Messenian war, and being the cause of the defeat of his Messenian allies, B.C. 682. _Pausanias_, _ibid._――――A Rhodian.――――A man who endeavoured to destroy the democratical power at Athens.――――An Athenian general sent to the assistance of Corcyra with 25 galleys. _Diodorus_, bk. 15.――――An Athenian who was punished with death for flying from the field of battle.――――A Greek historian, son of Hipparchus. _Plutarch_, _Lycurgus_. =Aristocreon=, the writer of a book on geography. =Aristocrĭtus=, wrote a treatise concerning Miletus. =Aristodēme=, a daughter of Priam. =Aristodēmus=, son of Aristomachus, was one of the Heraclidæ. He, with his brothers Temenus and Cresphontes, invaded Peloponnesus, conquered it, and divided the country among themselves, 1104 years before the christian era. He married Argia, by whom he had the twins Procles and Eurysthenes. He was killed by a thunderbolt at Naupactum, though some say that he died at Delphi in Phocis. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 18; bk. 3, chs. 1 & 16.――_Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 204; bk. 8, ch. 131.――――A king of Messenia, who maintained a famous war against Sparta. After some losses, he recovered his strength, and so effectually defeated the enemy’s forces, that they were obliged to prostitute their women to repeople their country. The offspring of this prostitution were called Partheniæ, and 30 years after their birth they left Sparta, and seized upon Tarentum. Aristodemus put his daughter to death for the good of his country; but being afterwards persecuted in a dream by her manes, he killed himself, after a reign of six years and some months, in which he had obtained much military glory, B.C. 724. His death was lamented by his countrymen, who did not appoint him a successor, but only invested Damis, one of his friends, with absolute power to continue the war, which was at last terminated after much bloodshed and many losses on both sides. _Pausanias_, _Messenia_.――――A tyrant of Cumæ.――――A philosopher of Ægina.――――An Alexandrian who wrote some treatises, &c. ――――A Spartan who taught the children of Pausanias.――――A man who was preceptor to the children of Pompey.――――A tyrant of Arcadia.――――A Carian who wrote a history of painting.――――A philosopher of Nysa, B.C. 68. =Aristogĕnes=, a physician of Cnidos, who obtained great reputation by the cure of Demetrius Gonatus king of Macedonia.――――A Thasian who wrote 24 books on medicine.