Arimneste was the daughter of Nicomachus father of Aristotle Nicomachus and Phaestis , and Aristotle s older sister. In addition to Aristotle, Arimneste had a brother named Arimnestus. Her name and that of her brother translates as Greatly remembered . There were two famous men named Arimnestus after whom Arimneste may have been named. The first Arimnestus was the Spartan soldier who killed the Persian general, Mardonius , at the Battle of Platea . The second Arimnestus was the King of the Tyrrhenians , who sent a gold throne to Olympia in honor of the Olympic Games . Arimneste married Proxenus of Atarneus , by which they had a daughter, Hero , and a son, Nicanor . Hero was Callisthenes of Olynthus mother. Nicanor married Aristotle s daughter Pythias . According to Aristotle s will, Nicanor was to manage the family affairs until his own son, Nicomachus son of Aristotle Nicomachus came of age. References cite journal author John Dillery title Reconfiguring the Past journal The American Journal of Philology volume 117 issue 2 year 1996 pages 217 254 Diogenes Laertius , Life of Aristotle . Translated by http www.classicpersuasion.org pw diogenes dlaristotle.htm C.D. Yonge . Eduard Zeller, Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics 1897 . DEFAULTSORT Arimneste Category Ancient Greek women Category Aristotle Category Ancient Stagirites Category 4th century BC Greek people Category 4th century BC women ... more details
Herpyllis of Stagira was Aristotle s mistress after his wife, Pythias , died Herpyllis was formerly a slave of Pythias Together Aristotle and Herpyllis had a son, named Nicomachus son of Aristotle Nicomachus after Aristotle s father. Nicomachus was quite young when Aristotle wrote his will, as can be seen from the fact that Nicanor , Aristotle s nephew by his sister Arimneste , is appointed guardian until Nicomachus son of Aristotle Nicomachus came of age. References Diogenes Laertius , Life of Aristotle . Translated by http www.classicpersuasion.org pw diogenes dlaristotle.htm C.D. Yonge . Eduard Zeller, Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics 1897 . Category Ancient Greek women Category Aristotle Category Ancient Stagirites Category 4th century BC Greek people Category Ancient Greek slaves and freedmen nl Herpyllis ... more details
Proxenus of Atarneus is most famous for being Aristotle s guardian after the death of his parents. Proxenus educated Aristotle for a couple of years before sending him to Athens to Plato s Academy . Proxenus had married Aristotle s older sister Arimneste , whereby they had a daughter Hero disambiguation Hero and a son Nicanor . Hero s own son, Callisthenes , would later become a student and collaborator with his great uncle Aristotle. Nicanor eventually married Aristotle s daughter, Pythias . References Diogenes Laertius , Life of Aristotle . Translated by http www.classicpersuasion.org pw diogenes dlaristotle.htm C.D. Yonge . Eduard Zeller, Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics 1897 . Category 4th century BC Greek people Category Aristotle ... more details
other uses Pythias lang el , P thias was the adoptive daughter of Hermias of Atarneus , as well as Aristotle s first wife. She was probably born about 381 BC and died in Athens after 326 BC. She predeceased Aristotle, which is known from his will, since it directs that her wish be honored to have her bones buried with his. Together Aristotle and Pythias had a daughter, also named Pythias. This Pythias married three times, but is also said to have predeceased her father. Her first husband was Nicanor dn date December 2011 , Aristotle s nephew by his sister Arimneste . According to Aristotle s will, Nicanor was to manage the family affairs until his son, Nicomachus son of Aristotle Nicomachus came of age. Pythias second husband was Procles of Sparta . Pythias third husband was Metrodorus , a physician. References Diogenes Laertius , Life of Aristotle . Translated by http www.classicpersuasion.org pw diogenes dlaristotle.htm C.D. Yonge . Eduard Zeller, Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics 1897 . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Pythias ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category Ancient Greek women Category Aristotle Category 4th century BC Greek people Category 362 BC births Category 4th century BC deaths Category Metics in Classical Athens AncientGreece bio stub de Pythias nl Pythias pt P tia Arist teles fi Pythias Aristoteles ... more details
Other persons Nicomachus Nicomachus lang el , lived c. 375 BC , was the father of Aristotle . The Suda states that he was a doctor descended from Nicomachus, son of Machaon the son of Asclepius. ref Suda , nu,399 ref Greenhill notes he had another son named Arimnestus, and a daughter named Arimneste, by his wife Phaestis, or Phaestias, who was also descended from Aesculapius. who? date January 2011 what? date January 2011 He was a native of Stageira , and the friend and physician of Amyntas III , king of Macedonia, 393 369 BC. ref William Alexander Greenhill, MD. Nicomachus. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . William Smith, editor. p 1194. 1867. ref Aristotle s son was also called Nicomachus son of Aristotle Nicomachus . Notes Reflist DEFAULTSORT Nicomachus Category Ancient Greek physicians Category Ancient Greeks in Macedon Category Ancient Stagirites Category 4th century BC Greek people Category Aristotle Category Old Macedonian kingdom bg ca Nic mac pare d Arist til fr Nicomaque p re d Aristote mk fi Nikomakhos Aristoteleen is ... more details
Other uses Callisthenes of Olynthus in Greek language Greek lang grc ca. 360 328 BC was a Ancient Greece Greek historian . He was the son of Hero Disambiguation needed date June 2011 and Proxenus of Atarneus , which made him the great nephew of Aristotle by his sister Arimneste . They first met when Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great . Through his great uncle s influence, he was later appointed to attend Alexander the Great on his Asiatic expedition as a professional historian. Asiatic Expedition During the first years of Alexander s campaign in Asia, Callisthenes showered praises upon the Macedon ian conqueror. As the king and army penetrated further into Asia, however, Callisthenes tone began to change. He began to sharply criticize Alexander s adoption of Persian customs, with special scorn for Alexander s growing desire that those who presented themselves before him perform the servile ceremony of proskynesis . Callisthenes was later implicated in a treasonous conspiracy and thrown into prison, where he died from torture or disease. His death was commemorated in a special treatise Callisthenes or a Treatise on Grief by his friend Theophrastus , whose acquaintance he made during a visit to Athens . Callisthenes wrote an account of Alexander s expedition up to the time of his own execution, a history of Greece from the Peace of Antalcidas 387 to the Phocian war 357 , a history of the Phocian war, and other works, all of which have perished. However, his account of Alexander s expedition was preserved long enough to be mined as a direct or indirect source for other histories that have survived. Polybius scolds Callisthenes for his poor descriptions of the battles of Alexander. ref Polybius, XII.17 Polybius dedicated to Callisthenes a whole chapter in his 12th book called On the Inexperience of Callisthenes as to the Provision of Deeds of War ref A quantity of the more legendary material coalesced into a text known as the Alexander Romance , the basis ... more details
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