Aristonymus

Aristonymus is the name of a number of people from ancient Greek history: *

Aristonymus of Athens Aristonymus of Athens () was sent by Plato to reform the constitution of the Arcadians. Aristonymus was the father of Clitophon. Sources *Plato, ''Republic,'' 328b *Plutarch Plutarch (; , ''Ploútarchos'', ; – 120s) was a Greek Middle ...

, friend or associate of

Plato Plato ( ; Greek language, Greek: , ; born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical Greece, Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the writte ...

Aristonymus (writer) Aristonymus () was a comedy, comic playwright and contemporary of Aristophanes and Ameipsias. We know the titles of only two of his comedies, ''Theseus'', and ''Helios Shivering'' (Ἥλιος ῾ριγῶν), of which only a few fragments are exta ...

, contemporary of

Aristophanes Aristophanes (; ; ) was an Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek Ancient Greek comedy, comic playwright from Classical Athens, Athens. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. The majority of his surviving play ...

* Aristonymus, an Athenian man mentioned by the historian

Thucydides Thucydides ( ; ; BC) was an Classical Athens, Athenian historian and general. His ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts Peloponnesian War, the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been d ...

as acting to ratify a temporary truce with Athenaeus of Sparta during the

Peloponnesian War The Second Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), often called simply the Peloponnesian War (), was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek war fought between Classical Athens, Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Ancien ...

* Aristonymus, a

grammarian Grammarian may refer to: * Alexandrine grammarians, philologists and textual scholars in Hellenistic Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE * Biblical grammarians, scholars who study the Bible and the Hebrew language * Grammarian (Greco-Roman ...

mentioned in the ''

Suda The ''Suda'' or ''Souda'' (; ; ) is a large 10th-century Byzantine Empire, Byzantine encyclopedia of the History of the Mediterranean region, ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Soudas () or Souidas (). It is an ...

'' and evidently confused with the

Aristonymus Aristonymus is the name of a number of people from ancient Greek history: * Aristonymus of Athens, friend or associate of Plato * Aristonymus (writer), contemporary of Aristophanes * Aristonymus, an Athenian man mentioned by the historian Thucydides ...

who wrote comic plays * Aristonymus of Byzantium, described in some ancient texts as the librarian of the

Library of Alexandria The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The library was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, ...

. Modern scholars believe this to be an error, and intending to refer to

Aristophanes of Byzantium __NOTOC__ Aristophanes of Byzantium ( ; Byzantium – Alexandria BC) was a Hellenistic Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as ...

. * Aristonymus, the name of two otherwise unknown writers mentioned by

Plutarch Plutarch (; , ''Ploútarchos'', ; – 120s) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo (Delphi), Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ''Parallel Lives'', ...

, neither of whom appeared to be the same as any of the other men with this name described here. {{disambig