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PIETRO VANNICELLI

Università di Roma–La Sapienza

Aristeas, whose father ADEIMANTUS commanded the Corinthian contingent in the Greek fleet in 480 BCE, was captured and put to death by the Athenians together with the other members of an embassy sent by SPARTA to PERSIA near the beginning of the PELOPONNESIAN WAR, in 430 (7.137.3). Herodotus explains this event—the latest explicitly mentioned in his work—as the delayed effect of divine wrath for the killing of Persian HERALDS in Sparta two generations earlier, during the PERSIAN WARS. This interpretation is implicitly refuted by THUCYDIDES in his account of the embassy’s fate (2.67).

SEE ALSO: Aneristus son of Sperthias; Corinth; Date of Composition; Reciprocity; Sperthias and Bulis; Talthybius