Aristodemus (Aristode`mus) , king of Messenia, carried on for 20 years a war with Sparta, till at length finding resistance hopeless he put an end to his life on the tomb of his daughter, whom he had sacrificed to ensure the fulfilment of an oracle to the advantage of his house; d. 724 B.C. Also a Greek sculptor, 4th century B.C.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Aristobu`lus I. * Aristom`enes