Aristocrates

Family: Athenians · Role: general · First appears: Book 1, section 4

At Andros, within three months of Alcibiades’ return, Aristocrates was one of the generals chosen to serve with him on land, alongside Adeimantus. Later, Pericles and Erasinides came as supports behind Aristocrates and Diomedon.

At Athens, Aristocrates was among the generals deposed by the home authorities. Timocrates proposed that the other five generals be imprisoned and handed over to the assembly, and the senate imprisoned them. The assembly deferred its decision; at the festival of the Aparturia, Theramenes’ party arranged for disguised mourners to appear and persuaded Callixenus to accuse the generals.

Relationship record

Life events

• Alcibiades sailed with an armament to Andros, which had revolted from Athens.(Book 1, section 4 · 📍 Andros)
  • With: Alcibiades Adeimantus
  • “within three months of his return, he set sail for Andros, which had revolted from Athens.”
• The returning generals were deposed by the home authorities.(Book 1, section 7, part 1/2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Pericles Diomedon Lysias Thrasylus Erasinides
  • “All the above-named generals, with the exception of Conon, were presently deposed by the home authorities.”
• Timocrates proposed custody for the other five generals, and the senate imprisoned them.(Book 1, section 7, part 1/2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Timocrates Pericles Diomedon Lysias Thrasylus
  • “Timocrates then proposed that the other five generals should be put in custody and handed over to the public assembly. Whereupon the senate committed them all to prison.”
• The assembly deferred its decision on the accused generals until another meeting.(Book 1, section 7, part 1/2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Pericles Diomedon Lysias Thrasylus
  • “Indeed many private citizens rose wishing to become bail for the accused, but it was resolved to defer decision till another meeting of the assembly.”
• Theramenes’s party arranged for disguised mourners to appear, and Callixenus to accuse the generals.(Book 1, section 7, part 1/2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Theramenes Callixenus Pericles Diomedon Lysias Thrasylus
  • “Accordingly the party of Theramenes procured numbers of people clad in black apparel, and close-shaven, who were to go in and present themselves before the public assembly in the middle of the festival, as relatives, presumably, of the men who had perished; and they persuaded Callixenus to accuse the generals in the senate.”
• Callixenus proposed a tribal vote on the generals, with death and confiscation as penalties if found guilty.(Book 1, section 7, part 1/2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Callixenus Pericles Diomedon Lysias Thrasylus
  • “Further, in the event of the aforesaid generals being found guilty, let death be the penalty. Let the guilty persons be delivered over to the eleven. Let their property be confiscated to the State, with the exception of one tithe, which falls to the goddess.”

Book 1, section 4

• with Alcibiades (Chosen to co-operate with Alcibiades on land.) “The generals chosen to co-operate with him on land were Aristocrates and Adeimantus, the son of Leucophilides.”

Book 1, section 6, part 2/2

• with Pericles (Pericles supported Aristocrates.) “immediately in rear of Aristocrates and Diomedon respectively, as their supports, came Pericles and Erasinides.”

Book 1, section 7, part 1/2

• with Timocrates (The proposal concerned the other five generals, including Aristocrates.) “Timocrates then proposed that the other five generals should be put in custody and handed over to the public assembly.”
• with Theramenes (The generals said they had assigned the rescue duty to Theramenes and Tharysbulus.) “Their explanation of the occurrences was that, in order to be free to sail against the enemy themselves, they had devolved the duty of picking up the shipwrecked crews upon certain competent captains of men-of-war, who had themselves been generals in their time, to wit Theramenes and Tharysbulus, and others of like stamp.”
• with Callixenus (Callixenus was persuaded to accuse the generals.) “Then came the festival of the Aparturia, with its family gatherings of fathers and kinsfolk. Accordingly the party of Theramenes procured numbers of people clad in black apparel, and close-shaven, who were to go in and present themselves before the public assembly in the middle of the festival, as relatives, presumably, of the men who had perished; and they persuaded Callixenus to accuse the generals in the senate.”

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