Aristodemus was a mythological figure who was a descendant of Heracles.

Aristodemus may also refer to:

Ancient Greece

Historical

Literary

  • Plutarch in his Parallel Lives speaks of an Aristodemus as the author of a collection of fables, one of which he relates.
  • Plutarch elsewhere speaks of a Platonic philosopher named Aristodemus who lived at the same time as Plutarch.
  • Another Aristodemus was mentioned by Athenaeus as the author of a work titled γελοῖα ἀπομνημονεύματα.
  • A third Aristodemus, occurs in Clement of Alexandria's Stromata as the author of a work titled περὶ εὑπημάτων.
  • A fourth Aristodemus is mentioned as the epitomizer of a work of Herodian.

Art

  • Aristodemus, a painter, the father and instructor of Nicomachus of Thebes, flourished probably in the early part of the fourth century BCE.
  • Aristodemus, a sculptor, who lived after the time of Alexander the Great, that is, some time around the 3rd century BCE. Among other works of his Pliny the Elder mentions a statue of Seleucus I Nicator. To what country he belonged is uncertain.
  • Aristodemus, a painter and art historian, a native of Caria, contemporary with Philostratus the elder, with whom he was connected by the ties of hospitality. He wrote a work giving an account of distinguished painters, of the cities in which painting had flourished most, and of the kings who had encouraged the art.

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