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In Greek mythology, Aristodemus ( Ancient Greek: Ἀριστόδημος) was a Heracleidae, son of Aristomachus and brother of Cresphontes and Temenus. He was a great-great-grandson of Heracles and helped lead the fifth and final attack on Mycenae in the Peloponnesus.
Aristodemus and his brothers complained to the Oracle that its instructions had proved fatal to those who had followed them (the Oracle had told Hyllas to attack through the narrow passage when the third fruit was ripe). They received the answer that by the "third fruit" the "third generation" was meant, and that the "narrow passage" was not the isthmus of Corinth, but the straits of Rhium. They accordingly built a fleet at Naupactus, but before they set sail, Aristodemus was struck by lightning (or shot by Apollo) and the fleet destroyed, because one of the Heraclidae had slain an Acarnanian soothsayer.
His brothers were later able to conquer the Peloponessus.
By his wife Argia, daughter of King Autesion of Thebes, he was the father of twin Kings Eurysthenes and Procles, the ancestors of the two royal houses of Sparta.
Aristodemus was a mythological figure who was a descendant of Heracles.
Aristodemus is an ancient Greek name that may also refer to:
- Aristodemus of Messenia (8th century BC), a hero of the First Messenian War
- Aristodemus of Cumae (6th century BC), a tyrant
- Aristodemus of Sparta (5th century BC), a soldier
- Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum (5th century BC), a follower of Socrates depicted in Plato's Symposium
- Aristodemus of Miletus (4th century BC), a diplomat
- Aristodemus the Good or Aristodemus of Megalopolis (3rd century BC), a tyrant of Megalopolis assassinated around 252 BC
- Aristodemos of Nysa the Elder (1st century BC), Ancient Greek grammarian and pedagogue
- Aristodemos of Nysa the Younger (1st century BC), Ancient Greek scholar and pedagogue, teacher of Strabo
- Aristodemus of Thebes, author, see List of anthologies of Greek epigrams
Aristodemus may also refer to:
- Papilio aristodemus, a species of butterfly