Ariphron

Ariphron
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Ariphron (Gr. Ἀρίφρων) was the name of several people from ancient Greek history:^[1]

Ariphron, the father of Xanthippus, and grandfather of Pericles, both prominent Athenian statesmen. He was a member of the Alcmaeonid family.^[2]^[3]
Ariphron, the brother of Pericles.^[4]
Ariphron of Sicyon, a Greek poet, and the author of a beautiful paean to health (Ἡγίεια), which has been preserved by Athenaeus.^[5] The beginning of the poem is quoted by Lucian and Maximus of Tyre.^[6]^[7] It is also printed in Bergk's Poetae Lyrici Graeci.^[8]

References

^ Smith, William (1867). "Alcmaeonidae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. Ed. William Smith. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 288.
^ Herodotus, vi. 131, 136, vii. 33, viii. 131
^ Pausanias, Description of Greece iii, 7. § 8
^ Plato, Protagoras p. 320, a
^ Athenaeus, xv. p. 702, a
^ Lucian, de Lapsu inter Salt. c. 6
^ Maximus of Tyre, xiii. 1
^ Theodor Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci p. 841

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