Megacles (son of Hippocrates)

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Megakles ( Greek  Μεγακλῆς ) was an Athenian politician from the Alkmeonid family in the 5th century BC. Chr.

Megakles, son of Hippocrates and grandson of Megakles , was a prominent Athenian politician and at times main opponent of Themistocles . 486 BC He won the horse race with the four-team in Delphi. He became 487/86 BC BC, possibly also 472/71 BC Banned temporarily by ostracism , his name appears on more than 4,000 ostracas. With Aristotle the ostracism of the hippocrat son is for 487/86 BC. While Lysias states that the grandfather of Alcibiades , i.e. Megakles , the son of Kleisthenes , had been ostracized twice. It cannot be decided in which direction a mixture of both people is to be assumed. His sister was Agariste , the mother of Pericles .

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  1. Cf. Herodotus , Historien , 6, 131.
  2. Cf. Christian Mann: The Demagogues and the People. On political communication in Athens in the 5th century BC Chr. Berlin 2007, pp. 145f.
  3. Cf. Christian Mann: The Demagogues and the People: On Political Communication in Athens in the 5th Century BC Chr. Berlin 2007, p. 66.
  4. Christian Mann: The demagogues and the people. On political communication in Athens in the 5th century BC Chr. Berlin 2007, p. 72.
  5. Aristotle, Athenaion politeia 22: 5-6.
  6. Lysias, Against Alkibiades 39; so also Pseudo-Andokides 4, 34 ( Against Alkibiades ).