Aristoclides was a painter mentioned by Pliny the Elder[1] as one of those who deserved to be ranked next to the "masters" in their art.
While it is often written in English as "Aristoclides", this person's name is more commonly transliterated from the Greek as Aristocleidas.
[7][8] There was still another Aristoclides, this one apparently a tyrant of ancient Greek Orchomenus, whose first known reference is in the treatise on marriage and virginity called Against Jovinianus, written by Church Father Saint Jerome.
The tale told of Aristoclides is that he killed the father of the virgin Stymphalides, whom he desired, and afterwards pursued her into the temple of the goddess Diana.
[9] It is this Aristoclides who is described as "Aristoclides of Orchomenus" in The Franklin's Tale of The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, referenced by one character as an example of how women ought to behave regarding the preservation of their virginity.