Aristodemus Milesius

Aristodemus, Parthenii filius, origine Milesius (Graece Ἀριστοδῆμος), qui saeculo IV a.C.n. exeunte floruit, Antigoni Monophthalmi coaevus, fuit huius regis amicus et sectator, annoque 311 a.C.n. legatus. In litteris ab Antigono urbi Scepsidi missis (OGIS 5) Aeschylum quendam legatum cum Aristodemo et Hegesia in Aegyptum ad Ptolemaeum missus est ut hic in foedere a diadochis eo anno sancto intraret.

Fontes

• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 18.47.4, 19.57.5, 19.60-66, cf. 20.53.1-2
• Inscriptiones Graecae vol. 2 (2a ed.) no. 459
• OGIS 5
• Plutarchus, "Vita Demetrii" 9, 17
• Plutarchus, Moralia 182d
• Rehm, Milet vol. 1 no. 123
• Knibbe et Iplikçioglu in JOAI vol. 53 (1982) pp. 130-132

Bibliographia

• "Aristodemus (5)" in William Smith, ed., Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (Londinii: Taylor & Walton, 1844-1849 ~) vol. 1 p. 305
• "Prosopography of Antigonos's Friends and Subordinates" in Richard A. Billows, Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) no. 16, pp. 371-374
• Gullath, Geschichte Boiotiens pp. 161-163
• J. Kirchner, "Aristodemos (16)" in Paulys Real-Enzyklopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft edd. G. Wissowa et alii (Stuttgart, 1893-1972 ~ ~)
• E. Olshausen, Prosopographie der hellenistischen Königsgesandten (Lovanii, 1974) no. 66, no. 75
• P. Schoch, "Aristodemos (16)" in Paulys Real-Enzyklopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft edd. G. Wissowa et alii (Stuttgart, 1893-1972 ~ ~) suppl. 4