Ariston
1. A son of Sophocles by Theoris. (Suidas,
s. v. Ἰοφῶν.)
He had a son of the name of Sophocles, who is said to have brought out, in B. C. 401, the Oedipus in Colonus of his grandfather Sophocles. (Argum.
ad Soph. Oed. Col. p. 12, ed. Wonder.) Whether he is the same as the Ariston who is called a writer of tragedies (
D. L. 7.164), and one of whose tragedies was directed against Mnesthenus, cannot be said with any certainty, though Fabricius (
Bibl. Gr. ii. p. 287) takes it for granted.