Nicostratus

Nicostratus may refer to:

• Against Nicostratus, an oration by Demosthenes
• On the Estate of Nicostratus, an oration by Isaeus

in fiction and mythology:

• Nicostrato the painter, a character in Boccaccio's Decameron
• A son of Helen and Menelaos (according to the Catalogue of Women, Laurentian Scholiast on Sophocles' Electra (539), and according to Apollodorus' Bibliotheca, 3.11.1)
• A son of Menelaos and a slave woman (according to Pausanias' Description of Greece, 2.18.6)

Persons with this name

See also: Saint Nicostratus (disambiguation)

• Nicostratus (comic poet), son of Aristophanes, 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 Agesilochus
• 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 Persephone (according to Pausanias' Description of Greece, 2.22.3)
• Nicostratus of Trapezus, a sophist philosopher, mentioned in Evagrius Scholasticus' Ecclesiastical History

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