“1Aphareus: —Of Athens; orator; son of the sophist Hippias and Plathane; stepson of the orator Isocrates; he flourished in the 95th Olympiad （400-397 B.C.） along with Plato the philosopher.”

Suidas Lexicon

“It is true that Aphareus wrote speeches both forensic and deliberative, but these were not many; he also wrote about 37 tragedies, two of which are of doubtful authenticity. His first play was produced in the archonship of Lysistratus （369）, and in the 27 years down to that of Sosigenes （342） he entered six tetralogies at the City Dionysia and won there twice under the name of Dionysius, and twice at the Lenaea under other names.2”

Plutarch Lives of the Ten Orators [Isocrates]

Isocrates then married Plathane, the widow of the orator Hippias, a woman with three children, of whom he adopted, as aforesaid, Aphareus, who set up a bronze statue of him upon a pillar near the Olympieum, with the following inscription:

This image of his father Isocrates was dedicated to Zeus by Aphareus in honour of the Gods and the virtues of his parents.

Plutarch Lives of the Ten Orators [Isocrates]

1 See also Isocr. Ep. 8. 1, Dem. 47. 31, 52. 14, Harp. s.v., Plut. Vit. Orat. 838, Dion. Hal. Isocr. 18, Dein. 13, Dem. et Arist. 2, Phot. Bibl. 487 b. 23, 488 a. 8, C.I.A. 2. 977. b.5.

2 he prob. wrote a life of Isocrates, cf. Vit. Isocr. W 258