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CARLO SCARDINO

Heinrich‐Heine‐Universität Düsseldorf

Tyrant of the city of BYZANTIUM during the campaign of DARIUS I against the SCYTHIANS (c. 513 BCE). According to Herodotus, Ariston took part in the council of the Greeks allied to Darius which debated whether to break up the BRIDGE of boats over the ISTER (Danube) River after the designated sixty‐day window had passed, although the Persians had not yet returned (4.138.1). Along with most of the Greek TYRANTS, he sided with HISTIAEUS of MILETUS, against the proposal of MILTIADES THE YOUNGER and the request of the Scythians to destroy the entire bridge. Thus he helped save the army of the Persian expedition. Nothing is known of his later fate.