Aristocles

Aristocles may refer to: *

Plato Plato ( ; Greek language, Greek: , ; born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical Greece, Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the writte ...

, Greek philosopher whose given name was apocryphally stated to be Aristocles in some ancient sources * Aristocles of Rhodes (fl. 1st century BCE), grammarian, rhetorician and Platonist * Aristocles of Pergamon (fl. 1st century), rhetorician * Aristocles (physician) (fl. 1st century) physician of Ancient Greece *

Aristocles of Messene Aristocles of Messene (; ), in Sicily,Suda, ''Aristokles'' was a Peripatetic philosopher, who probably lived in the 1st century AD. Life Little is known about the life of Aristocles. He came from Messene in Sicily (Messana, now Messina), not fro ...

(fl. 2nd century),

Peripatetic Peripatetic may refer to: *Peripatetic school, a school of philosophy in Ancient Greece *Peripatetic axiom, in philosophy *Peripatetic minority, a mobile population moving among settled populations offering a craft or trade. *Peripatetic Jats T ...

philosopher *Aristocles, a Stoic philosopher, who wrote a commentary in four books on a work of Chrysippus some time after the 3rd century *Aristocles, a musician to whom

Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (, or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; ) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and Grammarian (Greco-Roman), grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century ...

attributes a worked titled "On Song" () *Aristocles, the otherwise unknown author of a solitary epigram in the

Greek Anthology The ''Greek Anthology'' () is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the Classical Greece, Classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature. Most of the material of the ''Greek Anthology'' comes from two manuscripts, the ''Palatine ...

*Aristocles, author of a work on

paradox A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true or apparently true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictor ...

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Aristocles (sculptors) Aristocles (, ''Aristoklēs'') is a name attributed to two sculptors in Ancient Greece, as well as a nominal hereditary school of sculpture, started by the elder Aristocles, known to us primarily through different passages in Pausanias. *Aristocl ...

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