Aristoteles
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Aristoteles of Pallenê · my grandfather
spoken of as
1 expressionAristoteles of Pallenê1 mention
Against Leochares (Greek)
but since Archiades declared that he did not wish to marry, and for this reason allowed the property to remain undivided, and lived by himself in Salamis, Meidylides at length gave his daughter in marriage to Aristoteles of Pallenê, my grandfather.
in the texts
Hellenica
Athenian exile who serves as an intermediary for Lysander and later for the Thirty, and is himself named among the Thirty.
Lysander meanwhile sent Aristoteles, an Athenian exile, in company with some Lacedaemonians, to report to the ephors that the answer he had made to Theramenes was that they only had authority in the matter of peace and war.
When, however, the Thirty began to consider how they might become free to do just as they pleased with the state, their first act was to send Aeschines and Aristoteles to Lacedaemon and persuade Lysander to help them to secure the sending of a Lacedaemonian garrison, to remain until, as they said, they could put the scoundrels out of the way and establish their government;
And this oligarchy came into being in the way hereafter described — it was voted by the people to choose thirty men to frame the ancient laws into a constitution under which to conduct the government.
Against Leochares
Grandfather of the speaker, husband of Cleitomachê, and father of Aristodemus, Habronichus, and Meidylides.
but since Archiades declared that he did not wish to marry, and for this reason allowed the property to remain undivided, and lived by himself in Salamis, Meidylides at length gave his daughter in marriage to Aristoteles of Pallenê, my grandfather.