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Aristodemus, born in 550 BC also nicknamed Malakos, meaning voluptuous to touch), was a tyrant of Cumae.

As a strategos, he defeated the Etruscan armies in 524 BC and 506 BC in the Battle of Aricia.

He was a successful man of the people who overthrew the aristocratic faction, became a tyrant himself, and eventually was assassinated.