Ariphron

Ariphron (Gr. polytonic|Ἀρίφρων) was the name of several people from ancient Greek history:cite encyclopedia | last = Smith | first = William | authorlink = William Smith (lexicographer) | title = Alcmaeonidae | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 288 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0297.html ]

*Ariphron, the father of Xanthippus, and grandfather of Pericles, both prominent Athenian statesmen. He was a member of the Alcmaeonid family. [Herodotus, vi. 131, 136, vii. 33, viii. 131] [Pausanias, "Description of Greece" iii, 7. § 8]
*Ariphron, the brother of Pericles. [Plato, "Protagoras" p. 320, a]
*Ariphron of Sicyon, a Greek poet, and the author of a beau­tiful paean to health (polytonic|Ἡγίεια), which has been preserved by Athenaeus. [Athenaeus, xv. p. 702, a] The beginning of the poem is quoted by Lucian and Maximus of Tyre. [Lucian, "de Lapsu inter Salt." c. 6] [Maximus of Tyre, xiii. 1] It is also printed in Bergk's "Poetae Lyrici Graeci". [Theodor Bergk, "Poetae Lyrici Graeci" p. 841]

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