Aristocrates

Family: Four Hundred · Role: colonel · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 2

At Athens, Aristocrates, son of Scellias and one of the generals and officeholders under the oligarchy, joined Theramenes and others in organizing opposition to the administration. They demanded that the Five Thousand exist in reality and that the constitution be placed on a fairer basis.

At Piraeus, Aristocrates was a colonel among the heavy infantry building the wall in Eetionia. He and his tribe seized Alexicles, a general under the oligarchy, and confined him in a house. After Alexicles was released and the fortification pulled down, the heavy infantry assembled at the theatre of Dionysus and resolved to march into the city; they later agreed to hold an assembly there to restore concord.

Relationship record

Life events

• Theramenes, Aristocrates, and others organized opposition to the oligarchic administration.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Theramenes Hagnon Scellias
  • “These now banded together and strongly criticized the administration, their leaders being some of the principal generals and men in office under the oligarchy, such as Theramenes, son of Hagnon, Aristocrates, son of Scellias, and others;”
• The malcontents demanded that the Five Thousand exist in reality and that the constitution be fairer.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Theramenes Hagnon Scellias
  • “yet urged that the Five Thousand must be shown to exist not merely in name but in reality, and the constitution placed upon a fairer basis.”
• Heavy infantry seized Alexicles and confined him in a house.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 3 · 📍 Piraeus)
  • With: Theramenes Alexicles
  • “The heavy infantry in Piraeus building the wall in Eetionia, among whom was Aristocrates, a colonel, with his own tribe, laid hands upon Alexicles, a general under the oligarchy and the devoted adherent of the cabal, and took him into a house and confined him there.”
• The heavy infantry resolved to march into the city and held an assembly.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 3 · 📍 the theatre of Dionysus)
  • With: Theramenes
  • “The next day the Four Hundred, although alarmed, nevertheless assembled in the council chamber, while the heavy infantry in Piraeus, after having released their prisoner Alexicles and pulled down the fortification, went with their arms to the theatre of Dionysus, close to Munychia, and there held an assembly in which they decided to march into the city”
• The heavy infantry agreed to hold an assembly to restore concord.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 3 · 📍 the theatre of Dionysus)
  • With: Theramenes
  • “After a great many had spoken and had been spoken to, the whole body of heavy infantry became calmer than before, absorbed by their fears for the country at large, and now agreed to hold upon an appointed day an assembly in the theatre of Dionysus for the restoration of concord.”

Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 2

• parent: Scellias “their leaders being some of the principal generals and men in office under the oligarchy, such as Theramenes, son of Hagnon, Aristocrates, son of Scellias, and others”

Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 3

• with Theramenes (Political partisans.) “This so emboldened Theramenes and Aristocrates and the rest of their partisans in the Four Hundred and out of doors, that they now resolved to act.”
• with Alexicles (Aristocrates and the heavy infantry seized and confined Alexicles.) “The heavy infantry in Piraeus building the wall in Eetionia, among whom was Aristocrates, a colonel, with his own tribe, laid hands upon Alexicles, a general under the oligarchy and the devoted adherent of the cabal, and took him into a house and confined him there.”

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