Aristarchus
historical figure · 9 works · 12 mentions · 14 anchored passages
Aristarchus the Lacedaemonian · Aristarchus the son of Moschus
spoken of as
1 expressionAristarchus the Lacedaemonian1 mention
Anabasis (Greek)
Did you not go to Perinthus, and did not Aristarchus the Lacedaemonian forbid your entering and shut the gates against you?
in the texts
Stromata
Ancient source cited on Pythagoras's ethnicity.
but as Aristoxenus, in his Life of Pythagoras, and Aristarchus and Theopompus say, he was a Tyrrhenian;
But Aristarchus, in his Notes on Archilochus, says he flourished about the Ionian colony, which took place a hundred and forty years after the Trojan matters.
Anabasis
Successor governor at Byzantium who harshly handles Cyrus' soldiers and blocks the Greek army from crossing to Asia.
On the next day he sent for the generals and captains of the army.
And Aristarchus retorted, Anaxibius, mark you, is no longer admiral, and I am governor here;
but they resolved to disregard the summons of Aristarchus and instead to call a meeting of the army.
Hellenica
Oligarchic figure remembered as the destroyer of the democracy and betrayer of Oenoe to the Thebans, invoked by Euryptolemus as a precedent for lawful trial procedure even in the worst cases.
You would do a monstrous thing if, after granting in the past to Aristarchus, the destroyer of the democracy and afterwards the betrayer of Oenoe to your enemies the Thebans, a day in which to defend himself as he pleased, and allowing him all his other rights under the law,—if, I say, you shall now deprive the generals, who have done everything to your satisfaction, and have defeated the enemy, of these same rights.
But when the Lacedaemonians did not in the least relax their efforts in prosecuting the war, and Aristoteles, Melanthius, Aristarchus, and their fellow-generals were found to be building a fort on the peninsula, into which they proposed to admit the enemy and so bring the state under the control of themselves and their oligarchical associates,—if I perceived this plan and thwarted it, is that bein …
On the Embassy
Athenian associated with Demosthenes, alleged to have been aided in destroying Nicodemus and later cheated by Demosthenes.
You entered a happy home, that of Aristarchus the son of Moschus;
but you, who claim to be a man—that you really are a man I should not venture to say—you were once indicted for desertion, and you saved yourself by buying off the man who indicted you, Nicodemus of Aphidna, whom afterward you helped Aristarchus to destroy;
Orations
Grammarian/critic who expounded Homer's meaning.
And many others too have written, some praising the poet outright while at the same time expounding some of the things said by him, others setting forth this very thing, his meaning — not only Aristarchus and Crates and several others of those afterward called grammarians, but formerly critics.
Against Leocrates
One of the two men executed and denied burial for defending Phrynichus after his posthumous conviction for treason.
they killed his defenders, Aristarchus and Alexicles, and even refused them burial in the country.
Letters to Lucilius
Alexandrian grammarian and textual critic of Homer
And shall I review the trifles of Aristarchus, with which he pricked the poems of others, and waste my years on syllables?
History of the Peloponnesian War
The most extreme opponent of democracy among the Four Hundred, who after the regime's fall treacherously hands the fortress of Oenoe over to the Boeotians by deception.
while Aristarchus and some young men of the cavalry went to the rescue.
but Aristarchus and those who were opposed to the popular party were in a violent rage.
while Aristarchus alone of them, happening to be in office as general, took with all haste some of the most barbarous amongst the archers, and proceeded to Oenoe.
Memorabilia
An associate of Socrates burdened by a houseful of female relatives left destitute by civil upheaval; Socrates persuades him to put the women's skills to productive use.
When Socrates heard this, he asked:
One day, noticing that Aristarchus looked glum, he said:
What about men’s and women’s cloaks, shirts, capes, smocks?