Aristeus (ancient Greece)

Aristeus or Aristeas (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστέας) is the name of a number of people from classical antiquity. It may refer to:

• Aristeus, 5th century BC Corinthian general
• Aristeus, son of Pellichus (possibly the same Pellichus immortalized in one of the sculptures of Demetrius of Alopece), also a military general from Corinth, was one of the commanders of the Corinthian fleet sent against Epidamnos in 436 BC.[1]
• Aristeus, a military commander from Sparta active around 423 BC.[2]
• Aristeus of Argos, son of Cheimon, won in the Dolichos event at the ancient Olympic games.[3]

References

1. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.29
2. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.132
3. Pausanias, Description of Greece 6.9.1

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Aristeus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 297.