Ariston of Alexandria

Aristion in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Ἀριστίων). A philosopher who, by the influence of Mithridates, made himself tyrant of Athens. He committed suicide, on the capture of Athens by Sulla in B.C. 87....

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Aristo of Alexandria in Wikipedia

Aristo (or Ariston, Greek: Ἀρίστων) of Alexandria, was a Peripatetic philosopher, and a contemporary of Strabo in the 1st century. He wrote a work on the Nile.[1] Eudorus, a contemporary of his, wrote a book on the same subject, and the two works were so much alike, that the authors charged each other with plagiarism. Who was right is not said, tho...

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