Arete

Family: Syracusan · Role: wife of Dion · First appears: Timoleon

Life events

Arete gave birth to a son while imprisoned after Dion's murder.(Dion)
- “His sister, and wife big with child, they hurried to prison, who poor lady, in her unfortunate condition was there brought to bed of a son”

married with Dion “it was this very Hicetes, who took Arete the wife, and Aristomache the sister of Dion”
with Hicetes (Hicetes killed Arete) “Hicetes, who took Arete the wife, and Aristomache the sister of Dion, with a son that had not yet passed his childhood, and threw them all together into the sea alive”

married with Thearides “Arete, to his brother Thearides, after whose death, Dion received his niece Arete to wife.”
parent: Dionysius the First “Dionysius had three children by Doris, and by Aristomache four, two of which were daughters, Sophrosyne and Arete.”
child: Hipparinus “this was the name of Dion's son, though Timaeus says, he was, from his mother Arete's name, called Aretaeus”
married with Timocrates “he then forced Arete, against her will, to marry Timocrates”
with Hicetes (interaction) “Hicetes, one of Dion's friends, took them to his house”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.