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NicostratusThere were several people called Nicostratus: - Nicostratus (comic poet), son of Aristophanes, a poet of the Middle Comedy (4th century BC).
- Against Nicostratus is an oration by Demosthenes.
- On the Estate of Nicostratus is an oration by Isaeus.
- Nicostratus of Cilicia, a victor at the Olympic games (Pausanias 5.21.10)
- Nicostratus son of Xenoclides of Heraea, anOlympic victor: (Pausanias 6.3.11)
- Nicostratus the son of Theosdotides, mentioned in Plato's Apology of Socrates.
- Nicostratus of Argivia, who instituted a custom of throwing torches into a pit in honour of the Maid (Pausanias 2.22.3)
- According to the Laurentian Scholiast on Sophocles' Electra (539), Apollodorius 3.10.8a, a son of Helen and Menelaos.
- According to Pausanias 2.18.6, a son of Menelaos and a slave girl
- Nicostratus of Trapezus, a sophist philosopher, mentioned in Evagrius Scholasticus' Ecclesiastical History.
- Saint Nicostratus, one of the Four Crowned Martyrs, died ca. 304, feast day 8 November.
- Nicostrato the painter, a character in Boccaccio's Decamerone
*http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004%3Aid%3Dnicostratus-2
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