Aristomenes
historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Aristomenes of Anagyrus · Aristomenes the Messenian
spoken of as
2 expressionsAristomenes the Messenian2 mentions
Protrepticus (Greek) · Orations (Greek)
Aristomenes the Messenian, at any rate, slaughtered three hundred men to Ithometan Zeus, supposing that he was offering sacrifices of fair omen, so many and such hecatombs at once;
Aristomenes of Anagyrus1 mention
Against Phaenippus (Greek)
He declares that he owes upon the land to Pamphilus and Pheidoleus of Rhamnus jointly a talent, and to Aeantides of Phlyus four thousand drachmae, and to Aristomenes of Anagyrus fourteen minae.
in the texts
On the Mysteries
A person denounced by Andromachus.
Alcibiades, Niciades, Meletus, Archebiades, Archippus, Diogenes, Polystratus, Aristomenes, Oeonias, Panaetius.
Protrepticus
Messenian leader who sacrificed 300 men, including a captive Spartan king, to Zeus.
Aristomenes the Messenian, at any rate, slaughtered three hundred men to Ithometan Zeus, supposing that he was offering sacrifices of fair omen, so many and such hecatombs at once;
Against Phaenippus
A man of Anagyrus named as an alleged creditor in Phaenippus' declaration.
He declares that he owes upon the land to Pamphilus and Pheidoleus of Rhamnus jointly a talent, and to Aeantides of Phlyus four thousand drachmae, and to Aristomenes of Anagyrus fourteen minae.
Orations
Legendary Messenian warrior said to have been hairy even to the heart, who repeatedly escaped the Spartans.
But I fear that there is no benefit to the foolish in wearing long hair, as indeed there is not, not even if they should become hairy to the very heart, as they say Aristomenes the Messenian was, who gave the Lacedaemonians the most trouble and, often taken, escaped from them, and who, when at last he died, was found to be in this state.
On The Estate of Aristarchus
Brother of Aristarchus (I.) and guardian of his children, accused of engineering the marriage and adoption scheme that diverted the estate away from the speaker's mother.
but, after the death of Aristarchus, Aristomenes, his brother and now the legal representative of his brother's children, gave his own daughter in marriage to Cyronides, the son of Aristarchus, who had been adopted out of the family, having promised to obtain for him the estate of Aristarchus.
Seeing that neither Apollodorus nor Aristomenes, if either of them had married my mother, could possibly have had the disposal of her property—in accordance with the law which does not allow anyone to have the disposal of the property of an heiress except her sons, who obtain possession of it on reaching the second year after puberty—it would be strange if Aristarchus is going to be allowed, after …
) to have dissipated the fortune of Aristomenes in unnatural debauchery;