Jump to content

Aristogenes (general)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aristogenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστογένης) of Athens was an ancient Greek general during the Peloponnesian War, who was one of the ten commanders appointed to supersede Alcibiades after the battle of Notium in 407 BCE.[1][2][3]

He was one of the eight who conquered Callicratidas at the Battle of Arginusae in 406 BCE; and Protomachus and himself, by not returning to Athens after the battle, escaped execution -- the fate of their six remaining colleagues -- though a sentence of condemnation was passed against them in their absence.[4][5]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Xenophon, Hellenica 1.5.16
  2. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 13.74
  3. ^ Plutarch, Alcibiades 100.36
  4. ^ Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7. §§ 1, 34
  5. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 13.101

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainElder, Edward (1870). "Aristogenes". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 306.