Proxenus of Atarneus

'''Proxenus of Atarneus''' ({{langx|el|Πρόξενος ὁ Ἀταρνεύς}}) is most famous for being Aristotle's guardian after the death of his parents. Proxenus educated Aristotle for a couple of years before sending him to Athens to Plato's Academy. He lived in Atarneus, a city in Asia Minor.

Proxenus had married Aristotle's older sister Arimneste, whereby they had a daughter Hero and a son Nicanor. Hero's own son, Callisthenes, would later become a student and collaborator with his great-uncle Aristotle. Nicanor eventually married Aristotle's daughter, Pythias.

==References== *{{cite LotEP| chapter = Aristotle}} * Eduard Zeller, ''Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics'' (1897).

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