A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Ἀρέσας), of Lucania, and probably of Croton, was at the head of the Pythagorean school, and the sixth in succession from Pythagoras. Some attribute to him a work "about Human Nature," of which a fragment is preserved by Stobaeus

(Ecl i. p. 847, ed. Heeren); but others suppose it to have been written by Aesara. [AESARA.]