Aristocle

This name derives from the Ancient Greek “Aristoklês (Ἀριστοκλῆς),” composed of two elements: “áristos (ἄρῐστος)” (best, better, excellent, first-rate, thorough) plus “kléos (κλέος)” (rumor, report, good report, fame, glory). In turn, the name means “high-rate glorious, the best glory, great glory.” 1) Aristocles of Messene was a Peripatetic philosopher, who probably lived in the 1st century AD. He may have been the teacher of Alexander of Aphrodisias. 2) Aristocles is the real name of Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher 3) Aristocles is a name attributed to two sculptors in Ancient Greece, as well as a nominal hereditary school of sculpture, started by the elder Aristocles, known to us primarily through different passages in Pausanias.