Astrabacos

Family: Spartan · Role: hero · First appears: Book 6 · §66–74

Life events

• Demaratos’s mother told him he was conceived after an apparition appeared as Ariston, leaving his paternity uncertain between Ariston and Astrabacos.(Book 6 · §66–74 · 📍 Sparta)
  • With: Demaratos Ariston
  • “Thus, my son, thou hast all, as much as thou desirest to learn; for either thou art begotten of this hero and the hero Astrabacos is thy father, or Ariston is thy father, for on that night I conceived thee:”

Book 6 · §66–74

• with Demaratos (Astrabacos is presented as one possible father; the passage does not establish the claim as certain.) “Thus, my son, thou hast all, as much as thou desirest to learn; for either thou art begotten of this hero and the hero Astrabacos is thy father, or Ariston is thy father”
• child: Demaratos (The text presents Astrabacos's paternity as one of two possibilities.) “for either thou art begotten of this hero and the hero Astrabacos is thy father, or Ariston is thy father”

Also listed in Spartan — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.