Cleœtas

Role: artist · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 24

In Book 5, Chapter 24, Gnathis dedicated a votive offering to Zeus and Ganymede made by Aristocles, Cleœtas’s pupil and son. In Book 6, Chapter 20, an inscription credited Cleœtas, son of Aristocles, with inventing the starting mechanism for horses at Olympia; Aristides later improved it.

Relationship record

Life events

• Gnathis dedicated a Zeus-and-Ganymede votive offering made by Aristocles, pupil and son of Cleœtas.(Book 5 · Chapter 24)
  • With: Gnathis Aristocles Zeus Ganymede
  • “And this was a votive offering of Gnathis the Thessalian, and the work of Aristocles the pupil and son of Cleœtas.”

Book 5 · Chapter 24

• child: Aristocles (Cleœtas is identified as Aristocles's father.) “And this was a votive offering of Gnathis the Thessalian, and the work of Aristocles the pupil and son of Cleœtas.”
• pupil: Aristocles (Aristocles is identified as Cleœtas's pupil.) “And this was a votive offering of Gnathis the Thessalian, and the work of Aristocles the pupil and son of Cleœtas.”

Book 6 · Chapter 20

• parent: Aristocles (father of Cleœtas) (Aristocles is Cleœtas's father.) “I was made by Cleœtas the son of Aristocles, who invented at Olympia the start for horses.”
• with Aristides (Aristides improved Cleœtas's starting invention.) “They say too that Aristides subsequently somewhat improved the invention.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.