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Aristippus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρίστιππος) of Larissa in Thessaly was one of the Aleuadae who received lessons from the philosopher Gorgias when he visited Thessaly.

Aristippus obtained money and troops from Cyrus the Younger to resist a faction opposed to him, and placed the general Meno, who is described in ancient sources as Aristippus's lover, in command over these forces.

References

1. Xenophon, Anabasis 1.1.10, 2.6.28
2. Plato, Meno
3. Plato (1961). Bluck, R.S. (ed.). Meno. Cambridge University Press. pp. 203–204. ISBN 978-0-521-17228-8. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
4. Nails, Debra (2002). "Aristippus of Larissa". The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics. Hackett Publishing Company. p. 50. ISBN 9781603840279. Retrieved 2024-08-27.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Aristion (2)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 298.

• Ancient Larissaeans
• 5th-century BC Greek people