Aristeides
historical figure · 9 works · 11 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Aristeides the Just · Aristeides of Cephisia · Aristeides of the tribe of Oeneis · Aristeides, the son of Lysimachus · a second Aristeides
spoken of as
2 expressionsAristeides of Cephisia1 mention
On the Embassy (Greek)
Please call Aristophanes the Olynthian, and read his testimony, and call those who heard his story and reported it to me—Dercylus, of the deme Hagnus, the son of Autocles, and Aristeides of Cephisia, the son of Euphiletus.
Aristeides of Oeneis1 mention
Against Meidias (Greek)
Then again there is Aristeides of the tribe of Oeneis, who has had a similar misfortune.
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
Athenian statesman invoked as an authority on tribute and justice.
and that man who assessed the tribute of the Greeks, and whose daughters our people dowered after his death, Aristeides, expressing his indignation at this mockery of justice, and asking you if you are not ashamed that whereas, when Arthmius of Zeleia transported the gold of the Medes into Hellas, although he had once resided in our city, and was proxenus of the Athenian people, your fathers were …
And Aristeides the Just, a title most unlike the name men give Demosthenes?
On the Embassy
Famed Athenian statesman of the previous century known as 'the Just,' invoked ironically by Aeschines to mock Demosthenes' pretense of incorruptibility.
But the man who had not one member of his body left unsold, posing as a second Aristeides the Just, is displeased, and spits on us, as takers of bribes.
Please call Aristophanes the Olynthian, and read his testimony, and call those who heard his story and reported it to me—Dercylus, of the deme Hagnus, the son of Autocles, and Aristeides of Cephisia, the son of Euphiletus.
Against Timarchus
A celebrated Athenian statesman ('the Just') cited as an example of the modest, decorous public men of earlier generations.
And so decorous were those public men of old, Pericles, Themistocles, and Aristeides (who was called by a name most unlike that by which Timarchus here is called), that to speak with the arm outside the cloak, as we all do nowadays as a matter of course, was regarded then as an ill-mannered thing, and they carefully refrained from doing it.
Against Alcibiades
Athenian statesman remembered for his fair assessment of the tribute owed by the subject-allied states, invoked as a moral contrast to Alcibiades.
To begin with, he persuaded you to revise the assessment of the tribute of the subject-states made with the utmost fairness by Aristeides.
In fact, if you hold that Aristeides was a good Athenian and a just one, you can only regard Alcibiades as a scoundrel, since his policy towards the subject-states is the exact opposite of that of Aristeides.
Against Aristocrates
Athenian statesman presented as a model of public virtue and incorruptible administration.
In those days Aristeides had full control of the assessment of the tribute, but his own fortune was not increased by a single shilling;
Against Aristogeiton II
Athenian statesman cited as a past public figure who submitted to civic decrees.
It is said that Aristeides was banished by your ancestors and lived in Aegina till the people recalled him, and that Miltiades and Pericles, being fined thirty and fifty talents respectively, did not try to harangue the people until they had paid in full.
Against Meidias
Former chorus-leader used as an example of restraint by competing chorus-masters.
Then again there is Aristeides of the tribe of Oeneis, who has had a similar misfortune.
Letters
A renowned Athenian statesman of the past whose descendants Athens rewarded for his services, cited as a positive precedent for how Lycurgus' sons should be treated.
Of the children of others, however, whom you recompensed for their fathers’ good services I would gladly see you reminded;
Theaetetus
One of the young men named as a past associate who benefited from Socrates's maieutic method.
Aristeides, the son of Lysimachus, and there are very many more.
SOC. One of these was