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Aristarchus of Tegea Aristarchus or Aristarch of Tegea (, ''Aristarkhos ho Tegeates'') was a Ancient Greece, Greek tragic poet and a contemporary of Sophocles and Euripides. He lived to be a centenarian, composed seventy plays, and won two tragic victories. Only the ti ...

(5th century BC), Greek writer *

Aristarchus of Athens Aristarchus () is named with Peisander, Phrynichus, and Antiphon, as a principal leader of the "Four Hundred" during the Athenian coup of 411 BC, and is specified as one of the strongest anti-democratic partisans. On the first breaking out of the ...

, (5th century BC), one of the leaders of the Athenian coup of 411 BC * Aristarchus of Athens, though apparently different from the above, a conversation between whom and Socrates is recorded by Xenophon in his ''

Memorabilia A souvenir (French language, French for 'a remembrance or memory'), memento, keepsake, or token of remembrance is an object a person acquires for the memory, memories the owner associates with it. A souvenir can be any object that can be collecte ...

'' (2.7.) *

Aristarchus of Sparta Aristarchus () was a man of ancient Sparta who in 400 BC was sent out to succeed Cleander of Sparta as harmost of Byzantium. The Greeks who had accompanied Cyrus the Younger in his expedition against his brother Artaxerxes II of Persia, had rece ...

, harmost of Byzantium in 400 BC *

Aristarchus (physician) Aristarchus () was the name of at least two people of classical antiquity known to be physicians: * Aristarchus, a Greek physician, of whom no particulars are known, except that he was attached to the court of Berenice, the wife of Antiochus II Theo ...

, royal physician to the court of Syria in the 3rd century BC *

Aristarchus of Samos Aristarchus of Samos (; , ; ) was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the universe, with the Earth revolving around the Sun once a year and rotati ...

(c. 310–230 BC), Greek astronomer and mathematician *

Aristarchus of Samothrace Aristarchus of Samothrace ( ''Aristarchos o Samothrax''; BC) was an ancient Greek grammarian, noted as the most influential of all scholars of Homeric poetry. He was the head librarian of the Library of Alexandria and seems to have succeeded hi ...

(c. 220–143 BC), Greek grammarian * Aristarchus, one of the ambassadors sent by the Phocaeans to

Seleucus IV Philopator Seleucus IV Philopator ( Greek: Σέλευκος Φιλοπάτωρ, ''Séleukos philopátо̄r'', meaning "Seleucus the father-loving"; 218 – 3 September 175 BC), ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, reigned from 187 BC to 175 BC over a ...

, the son of Antiochus III the Great, in 190 BC *

Aristarchus of Colchis Aristarchus (; , ''Aristarkhos'') was a ruler of Colchis as a client of Rome from 63 BC to . He was installed by the Roman general Pompey as part of his settlement of Asia during the Mithridatic Wars. Aristarchus is principally known from the works ...

(fl. 63–50 BC), Colchian dynast, appointed by Pompey after the close of the Mithridatic Wars *

Aristarchus of Thessalonica Aristarchus or Aristarch ( ''Aristarkhos''), "a Macedonian of Thessalonica" ( Acts 27:2), was an early Christian mentioned in a few passages of the New Testament. He accompanied Saint Paul on his journey to Rome. Along with Gaius, another Roman ...

(1st century AD), Eastern saint and early Christian mentioned in a few passages in the New Testament * Aristarchus the Chronographer, author of a letter on the situation of Athens, and the events which took place there in the 1st century AD, and especially of the life of

Dionysius the Areopagite Dionysius the Areopagite (; ''Dionysios ho Areopagitēs'') was an Athenian judge at the Areopagus Court in Athens, who lived in the first century. A convert to Christianity, he is venerated as a saint by multiple denominations. Life As rel ...

* Aristarchus of Alexandria (date unknown), the author of a work on the interpretation of dreams, mentioned by

Artemidorus Artemidorus Daldianus () or Ephesius was a professional diviner and dream interpreter who lived in the 2nd century AD. He is known from an extant five-volume Greek work, the '' Oneirocritica'' or ''Oneirokritikon'' ()."Artemidorus Daldianus" in ...

in the 2nd century

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* 3999 Aristarchus, a main-belt asteroid *

Aristarchus (crater) Aristarchus is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that lies in the northwest part of the Moon's near side. It is considered the brightest of the large formations on the lunar surface, with an albedo nearly double that of most lunar features. ...

, on the Moon

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