Ariston (Athenian)

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Ariston of Collytus, (d. c. 424 BC) was the father of the Greek philosopher Plato, originally named Aristocles . Legend holds that he was descended from the ancient kings of Athens. Ariston died when Plato was still a boy, and his mother remarried Pyrilampes, a friend of the Athenian politician Pericles.¹

Ariston married Perictione and had three other children: Glaucon, Adeimantus, and Potone.

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• Diogenes Laertius, Life of Plato. Translated by C.D. Yonge.
• ¹Plato, The Republic, Trans. G.M.A. Grube, Cambridge: Hackett, 1992. viii