Herodotus' Histories

Aristocrates

Family: Eginetan · Role: Casambos' father · First appears: Book 6 · §66–74

Life events

  • The Spartan kings took ten prominent Eginetans prisoner and placed them in Athenian custody.(Book 6 · §66–74 · 📍 Attica)
    • With: Cleomenes Leotychides Crios (son of Polycritos) Polycritos (father of Crios) Casambos
    • “and the Spartans selected ten men who were the most considerable among the Eginetans both by wealth and by birth, and took them away as prisoners, and among others also Crios the son of Polycritos and Casambos the son of Aristocrates, who had the greatest power among them; and having taken these away to the land of Attica, they deposited them as a charge with the Athenians, who were the bitterest enemies of the Eginetans.”

Book 6 · §66–74

  • child: Casambos “and among others also Crios the son of Polycritos and Casambos the son of Aristocrates”

Also listed in Eginetan — Minor Figures

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