• Aristodemus (Greek: Ἀριστόδημος) was a tyrant of the Greek city of Megalopolis. He was a Phigalian by birth and a son of Artylas, who had been adopted...
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  • Aristodemus was a mythological figure who was a descendant of Heracles. Aristodemus may also refer to: Aristodemus of Messenia (8th century BC), hero of...
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  • Acrotatus (king of Sparta) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DGRBM)
    (possibly in the same year) in battle against Aristodemus the Good, the tyrant of Megalopolis. Pausanias, in speaking of his death, calls him the son of Cleonymus...
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  • Cleobulus, 6th century BC Dionysius the Younger, 356-346 BC Aristodemus the Good, c. 262-252 BC (assassinated by the "philosopher tyrannicides" Ecdemus...
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    Antigonus II Gonatas (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    assassinated 272 BC), Aristippus the Elder (Argos, from 272 BC), Abantidas (Sicyon, 264–252 BC), Aristodemus the Good (Megalopolis, assassinated 252 BC)...
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    Cresphontes and Aristodemus were the three Doric leaders who invaded the Mycenean Peloponnese region. Then they proceeded to divide the conquered territories...
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    killed there (with the exception of Aristodemus and Pantites), and the epitaph exploits the conceit that there was nobody left to bring the news of their deeds...
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    Procles and Eurysthenes - Great-great-great-grandsons of Heracles, sons of Aristodemus and Argia. Sisyphus and Salmoneus - Rivals who angered Zeus with their...
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    Strabo (category Greek-language historians from the Roman Empire)
    Aristodemus, who had formerly taught the sons of the Roman general who had taken over Pontus. Aristodemus was the head of two schools of rhetoric and grammar...
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  • which differ only slightly; for example, that King Aristodemus had twin sons, who agreed to share the kingship, and this became perpetual. Modern scholars...
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