Aristomachus
Family: Argive · Role: son of Cleodæus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 7
Aristomachus was the son of Cleodæus. In Book 2, Chapter 7, he misunderstood an oracle and lost his return to the Peloponnese. Later, Aratus the son of Clinias persuaded him, as king at Argos, to establish a democratic government and join the Achaean League.
In Book 2, Chapter 18, Temenus and Cresphontes are named as his sons. In Book 6, Chapter 21, Aristomachus was among those killed by Œnomaus in the fatal race.
Relationship record
Life events
- Aristomachus misunderstood the oracle and lost his return to the Peloponnese.(Book 2 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Peloponnese)
- “Phanes came to Sicyon, when Aristomachus the son of Cleodæus, mistaking the oracle, lost thereby his return to the Peloponnese.”
- Œnomaus killed numerous suitors before Pelops defeated him.(Book 6 · Chapter 21)
- With: Œnomaus Alcathous Euryalus Eurymachus Crotalus Acrias Capetus Lycurgus Lasius Chalcodon Tricolonus (namesake descendant) Prias Pelagon Æolius Cronius Erythras Eioneus
- “Indeed according to the poem called the Great Eœæ the following were killed by Œnomaus, Alcathous the son of Porthaon next to Marmax, and next to Alcathous Euryalus and Eurymachus and Crotalus. Their parents and native lands I could not ascertain. But Acrias, who was killed next, one would infer to have been a Lacedæmonian and the founder of Acriæ. And next to Acrias Œnomaus slew Capetus and Lycurgus and Lasius and Chalcodon and Tricolonus, who the Arcadians say was a descendant as well as namesake of Tricolonus the son of Lycaon. And after Tricolonus fate overtook in this fatal race Aristomachus and Prias and Pelagon and Æolius and Cronius. Some also add to the list I have given Erythras, the son of Leucon and grandson of Athamas, who gave his name to the town in Bœotia called Erythræ, and Eioneus, the son of Magnes and grandson of Æolus.”
Book 2 · Chapter 7
- parent: Cleodæus (Cleodæus is identified as Aristomachus's father.) “Phanes came to Sicyon, when Aristomachus the son of Cleodæus, mistaking the oracle, lost thereby his return to the Peloponnese.”
Book 2 · Chapter 8
- with Aratus the son of Clinias (interaction) “He also persuaded Aristomachus, who was king at Argos, to give a democratical form of government to the Argives, and to join the Achæan league”
Book 2 · Chapter 18
- child: Temenus “Temenus and Cresphontes the sons of Aristomachus”
- child: Cresphontes “Temenus and Cresphontes the sons of Aristomachus”
Book 2 · Chapter 38
- child: Temenus “Temenus the son of Aristomachus”
Book 6 · Chapter 21
- with Œnomaus (interaction) “And after Tricolonus fate overtook in this fatal race Aristomachus and Prias and Pelagon and Æolius and Cronius.”
- enemies with Œnomaus “And after Tricolonus fate overtook in this fatal race Aristomachus and Prias and Pelagon and Æolius and Cronius.”
Book 8 · Chapter 5
- child: Cresphontes “Cresphontes, the only unmarried son of Aristomachus”
Book 8 · Chapter 29
- child: Cresphontes (Aristomachus is the father of Cresphontes.) “Cresphontes the son of Aristomachus.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.