Aristodēmus

, son of Aristo mach us, was one of the Heraclidæ. He, with his brothers Temenus and Cresphontes, invaded Peloponnesus, conquered it, and divided the country among themselves, 1104 years before the christian era. He married Argia, by whom he had the twins Procles and Eurysthenes. He was killed by a thunderbolt at Naupactum, though some say that he died at Delphi in Phocis. Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 18 ; bk. 3 , chs. 1 & 16.— Hero dot us , bk. 7 , ch. 204 ; bk. 8 , ch. 131 .――A king of Me enia, who maintained a famous war against Sparta. After some lo es, he recovered his strength, and so effectually defeated the enemy’s forces, that they were obliged to prostitute their women to repeople their country. The offspring of this prostitution were called Par then iæ, and 30 years after their birth they left Sparta, and seized upon Tarentum. Aristo dem us put his daughter to death for the good of his country; but being afterwards persecuted in a dream by her manes, he killed himself, after a reign of six years and some months, in which he had obtained much military glory, B.C. 724. His death was lamented by his countrymen, who did not appoint him a succe or, but only invested Damis, one of his friends, with absolute power to continue the war, which was at last terminated after much bloodshed and many lo es on both sides. Pausanias , Me enia .――A tyrant of Cumæ.――A philosopher of Ægin a.――An Alexandrian who wrote some treatises, . ――A Spartan who taught the children of Pausanias.――A man who was preceptor to the children of Pompey.――A tyrant of Arcadia.――A Carian who wrote a history of painting.――A philosopher of Nysa, B.C. 68.