Aristocles
Family: Cydonian · Role: artist · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 24
In Book 5, Chapter 24, Aristocles made a votive offering of Zeus and Ganymede dedicated by Gnathis. He is described as the pupil and son of Cleœtas. In Book 5, Chapter 25, he designed Hercules as a votive offering for Evagoras of Zancle.
In Book 6, Chapters 3 and 9, Pantias and Synnoon are described as pupils of Aristocles of Sicyon; the material also identifies him as Canachus’s brother.
Relationship record
Life events
- Gnathis dedicated a Zeus-and-Ganymede votive offering made by Aristocles, pupil and son of Cleœtas.(Book 5 · Chapter 24)
Book 5 · Chapter 24
- with Zeus (Aristocles made the statue.) “And this was a votive offering of Gnathis the Thessalian, and the work of Aristocles the pupil and son of Cleœtas.”
- parent: Cleœtas (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.”
- mentor: Cleœtas (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.”
- with Ganymede (Aristocles made the work depicting Zeus and Ganymede.) “And opposite it are some votive offerings in a row, statues of Zeus and Ganymede. The account of Homer is that Ganymede was carried off by the gods to be cupbearer to Zeus, and that Tros his father had some horses given him for his son. And this was a votive offering of Gnathis the Thessalian, and the work of Aristocles the pupil and son of Cleœtas.”
Book 5 · Chapter 25
- with Hercules (Aristocles designed the statue of Hercules.) “This is the votive offering of Evagoras of Zancle, and the design of Aristocles of Cydonia.”
Book 6 · Chapter 3
- pupil: Pantias “Pantias, who by six intermediate links was a pupil of Aristocles the Sicyonian.”
Book 6 · Chapter 9
- pupil: Synnoon (Aristocles was Synnoon's mentor.) “Synnoon, who was himself the pupil of Aristocles of Sicyon”
- siblings with Canachus “Aristocles of Sicyon, the brother of Canachus”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.