Aristocrates (grandson)

First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 5

Hicetas was his father, and he bore the same name as his grandfather. At the Great Trench, he betrayed the messenians after receiving bribes from Lacedæmon; the Arcadians detected him and stoned him to death, as they had Aristodemus.

Relationship record

Book 8 · Chapter 5

• parent: Hicetas “His son was Hicetas, who had a son Aristocrates, of the same name as his grandfather”
• with Messenians (betrayal) “for he too was stoned to death by the Arcadians, who detected him receiving bribes from Lacedæmon, and betraying the Messenians at the great reverse they met with at the Great Trench.”
• with Aristodemus (king of Messenia) (The text does not name an individual recipient or victim beyond Aristocrates; no direct personal relation to Aristodemus is stated.) “he too was stoned to death by the Arcadians, who detected him receiving bribes from Lacedæmon, and betraying the Messenians at the great reverse they met with at the Great Trench.”

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