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'''Aristobulus''' of [[Cassandreia]] (c. 375 BC – 301 BC), [[Greeks|Greek]] [[historian]], son of Aristobulus, probably a [[Phocian]] settled in<br />
Cassandreia,<ref name="Hammond2007">{{cite book|author=N. G. L. Hammond|title=Sources for Alexander the Great: An Analysis of Plutarch's 'Life' and Arrian's 'Anabasis Alexandrou'|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gay_i14p9oEC&q=Aristobulus+Phocian&pg=PA207|date=13 August 2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-71471-6|page=207}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pearson |first1=Lionel |title=Aristobulus the Phocian |journal=The American Journal of Philology |date=1952 |volume=73 |issue=1 |pages=71–75|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/292236 |doi=10.2307/292236|jstor=292236 }}</ref><ref>Phokis — Delphi — 252/1 BC [https://web.archive.org/web/20110716075349/http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions//oi?ikey=239835&bookid=452&region=3&subregion7= Epigraphical Database]</ref> accompanied [[Alexander the Great]] on his campaigns. He served throughout as an architect and military engineer<ref>{{cite book |last1=Heckel |first1=Waldemar |title=Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great : prosopography of Alexander's empire |date=2006 |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Malden, Mass. |isbn=978-1-4051-1210-9}}</ref> as well as a close friend of Alexander, enjoying royal confidence, and was entrusted with the repair of the tomb of [[Cyrus the Great]] in [[Pasargadae]]. He wrote an account, mainly geographical and ethnological.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Aristobulus (of Cassandreia)|display=Aristobulus|volume=2|page=497}}</ref> It survives only in quotations by others, which may not all be faithful to the original. His work was largely used by [[Arrian]]. [[Plutarch]] also used him as a reference.<ref name="EB1911"/><br />
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070405223943/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0309.html Ancient Library]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://www.livius.org/ap-ark/aristobulus/aristobulus.html Aristobulus] at Livius.org<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051219052720/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/wcd/Aristobulus Aristobulus] at the Wiki Classical Dictionary<br />
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