Aristodicus Of Tanagra
Aristodicus ( grc, Ἀριστόδικος, link=no) can refer to one of two people from ancient history: * Aristodicus of Cyme, subject of a narrative of Herodotus's in which Aristodicus disagrees with the pronouncements of an oracle * Aristodicus of Rhodes, an author from the Greek Anthology The ''Greek Anthology'' ( la, Anthologia Graeca) is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the Classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature. Most of the material of the ''Greek Anthology'' comes from two manuscripts, the ''Pa ...

Aristodicus Of Cyme
Aristodicus ( grc, Ἀριστόδικος) of Cyme in Asia Minor, and son of Heracleides. When his fellow citizens were advised, by an oracle, to deliver up Pactyes to the Persians, Aristodicus dissuaded them from it, saying that the oracle might be a fabrication, as Pactyes had come to them as a suppliant Supplication (also known as petitioning) is a form of prayer, wherein one party humbly or earnestly asks another party to provide something, either for the party who is doing the supplicating (e.g., "Please spare my life.") or on behalf of someon .... Aristodicus was then sent himself to consult the oracle; but the answer it gave was the same as before; and when Aristodicus, in order to avert surrendering a suppliant -- which was in context an impious act -- endeavored to demonstrate to the god Apollo (the source of the oracle), that he had given an unjust command, the oracle still persisted in it, and added that it was intended to bring ruin upon Cyme, as punishment for e ...
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