Aristozanes Vivanid

Aristozanes Vivanid was a Seleukid strategos during the Second Seleukid-Antigonid War. He was put in command of a fresh army raised after the devastating Seleukid defeat at Maked. However Antiochos I had died by the time Aristozanes' army was ready and Seleukos II waivered in his commitment for the war. His destruction of the Antigonid army under Nabarzanes I at Lysias rallied Seleukos' support and led to eventual Seleukid victory in the war. After Lysias he would be sent south to occupy Antigonid Phoenicia and Gallillee and fought a number of minor victorious battles during the period.

Seleukos rewarded him with various rich estates in Mesopotamia. A later blindness in his life caused him to be reassigned to study military advances. Blind and old, he did participate in the 216 BC Olympics.