Aristocles

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: brother of Pleistoanax · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 3

In Book 5, Section 15, Aristocles is identified as Pleistoanax’s brother; the account says that “he and his brother Aristocles had bribed the prophetess of Delphi.” Later, at Sparta, Aristocles and Hipponoidas refused Agis’s order to move over and were banished for cowardice.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hipponoidas and Aristocles refused Agis’s order and were banished from Sparta for cowardice.(Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 8 · 📍 Sparta)
  • With: Hipponoidas
  • “Aristocles and Hipponoidas would not move over, for which offence they were afterwards banished from Sparta, as having been guilty of cowardice”

Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 3

• siblings with Pleistoanax “he and his brother Aristocles had bribed the prophetess of Delphi”

Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 8

• with Agis (Aristocles refused Agis's order and was later banished.) “However, as he gave these orders in the moment of the onset, and at short notice, it so happened that Aristocles and Hipponoidas would not move over, for which offence they were afterwards banished from Sparta, as having been guilty of cowardice; and the enemy meanwhile closed before the Sciritae (whom Agis on seeing that the two companies did not move over ordered to return to their place) had time to fill up the breach in question.”
• with Hipponoidas (They jointly refused Agis's order and were banished for the offense.) “However, as he gave these orders in the moment of the onset, and at short notice, it so happened that Aristocles and Hipponoidas would not move over, for which offence they were afterwards banished from Sparta, as having been guilty of cowardice”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.