Nicostratus
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Nicostratus may refer to:
in fiction and mythology:
- Against Nicostratus, an oration by DemosthenesDemosthenesDemosthenes was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by...
- On the Estate of Nicostratus, an oration by IsaeusIsaeusIsaeus , fl. early 4th century BC. One of the ten Attic Orators according to the Alexandrian canon. He was a student of Isocrates in Athens, and later taught Demosthenes while working as a metic speechwriter for others. Only eleven of his speeches survive, with fragments of a twelfth. They are...
in fiction and mythology:
- Nicostrato the painter, a character in Boccaccio's Decameron
- A son of Helen and Menelaos (according to the Catalogue of WomenCatalogue of Womenthumb|275px|[[Guido Reni]]'s first Atalanta e Ippomene , depicting the race of [[Atalanta]], a myth which was known to Reni from [[Ovid]]'s [[Metamorphoses]], but is now also represented by several fragments of the Catalogue of Women.The Catalogue of Women —also known as...
, Laurentian Scholiast on Sophocles' Electra (539), and according to Apollodorus' BibliothecaBibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)The Bibliotheca , in three books, provides a comprehensive summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends, "the most valuable mythographical work that has come down from ancient times," Aubrey Diller observed, whose "stultifying purpose" was neatly expressed in the epigram noted by...
, 3.11.1) - A son of Menelaos and a slave woman (according to Pausanias' Description of Greece, 2.18.6)
Persons with this name
- Nicostratus (comic poet), son of AristophanesAristophanesAristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...
, a poet of the Middle Comedy (4th century BC) - Nicostratus, son of Theosdotides, mentioned in Plato's Apology of Socrates
- Nicostratus of Rhodes, a Rhodian commander in the 2nd century BC, companion of AgesilochusAgesilochusAgesilochus or Hegesilochus , son of Hegesias, was the chief magistrate of the Rhodians in the 2nd century BC. On the breaking out of the war between Rome and Perseus of Macedon in 171 BC, he recommended his countrymen to support the side of the Romans...
- Nicostratus of Cilicia, a victor at the ancient Olympic Games (according to Pausanias' Description of Greece, 5.21.10)
- Nicostratus of Heraea, Arcadia, son of Xenoclides, wrestler, a victor at the ancient Olympic Games (according to Pausanias' Description of Greece, 6.3.11)
- Nicostratus of Argivia, who instituted a custom of throwing torches into a pit in honour of PersephonePersephoneIn Greek mythology, Persephone , also called Kore , is the daughter of Zeus and the harvest-goddess Demeter, and queen of the underworld; she was abducted by Hades, the god-king of the underworld....
(according to Pausanias' Description of Greece, 2.22.3) - Nicostratus of Trapezus, a sophist philosopher, mentioned in Evagrius Scholasticus' Ecclesiastical History