Aristonikos of Marathon
Aristonicus of Marathon ( Greek Ἀριστόνικος ; † .. 322 BC in Kleonai ) was from Marathon originating Athenian statesman of the 4th century BC. Chr.
Life
Aristonikos was a supporter of the Athenian politicians and orators Demosthenes and Hypereides . 334 BC BC he applied with Lykurgus to send a squadron under Diotimus against the pirates. Ten years later, 324 BC. BC, he was involved in the trial against Harpalus , because Dionysius of Halicarnassus leads a corresponding speech of Deinarchus against him. Later Aristonikos had to leave Athens and fled to Aegina . After the end of the Lamian War he became 322 BC. As an opponent of Macedonian politics at the request of Demades with Demosthenes, Hypereides a. a. Sentenced to death in absentia and then seized by Archias, who was serving as a hunter in the temple of Aiakos on Aegina . Archias sent Aristonikos to Kleonai to Antipater , who had him executed.
literature
- Theodor Thalheim : Aristonikos 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 960 f.
Remarks
- ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum II 804 B b 39.
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Perì Deinárchou 10.
- ↑ Plutarch Demosthenes 28, 4; Lukian of Samosata , Demosthenis encomium 31; Arrian , Historia successorum Alexandri , fragment 1, 13 f.
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| SURNAME | Aristonikos of Marathon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Athenian statesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 322 BC Chr. |
| Place of death | Kleonai |