Ariston ( grc-gre, Ἀρίστων) was a

king of Sparta For most of its history, the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek polis, city-state of Sparta in the Peloponnese was ruled by kings. Sparta was unusual among the Greek city-states in that it maintained its kingship past the archaic Greece, Archaic age. I ...

, 14th of the Eurypontids, son of

Agasicles Agasicles, alternatively spelled Agesicles or Hegesicles ( grc-gre, Ἀγασικλῆς, Ἀγησικλῆς, Ἡγησικλῆς), was a king of Sparta, the 13th of the line of Procles. Son of Archidamus I, Louis Moréri (1732)Le grand di ...

, contemporary of Anaxandrides II. Ariston ascended the Spartan throne around 550 BC, and died around 515 BC. He was a highly regarded king, as evidenced by a public prayer for him to have a son, when the house of

Procles In Greek legends, Procles ( el, Προκλῆς, "the renowned") was one of the Heracleidae, a great-great-great-grandson of Heracles, and a son of Aristodemus and Argia. His twin was Eurysthenes. Together they received the land of Lacedaemon aft ...

had other representatives. After two barren marriages, a son,

Demaratus Demaratus ( el, Δημάρατος ; Doric: ) was a king of Sparta from around 515 BC to 491 BC. The 15th of the Eurypontid line, he was the first son born to his father, King Ariston. As king, Demaratus is known chiefly for his opposition t ...

, was born to Ariston's third wife, whom he obtained, it was said, by a fraud from her husband, his friend, Agetus.

Herodotus Herodotus ( ; grc, , }; BC) was an ancient Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria ( Italy). He is known f ...

i. 65, vi. 61-66; Pausanias iii. 7.§7;

Plutarch Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ''P ...

''Apophth. Lac.''

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