Hippocrates
Family: Athenian · Role: father of Peisistratos · First appears: Book 1 · §53–59
After Chilon advised Hippocrates not to have a son—or to disown one if he already had one—Hippocrates refused, and Peisistratos was born to him afterwards. The later material names Megacles and Agariste as children of Hippocrates, with another Megacles and Agariste also recorded among his descendants.
In Book 7, Hippocrates is described as succeeding to the monarchy and as the brother of Cleander, son of Pantares. Gelon and Ainesidemos served as spearmen of his guard; later, Gelon pretended to help Hippocrates’s sons Eucleides and Cleander.
Relationship record
Life events
- Peisistratos was born after Hippocrates rejected Chilon’s advice to disown any son he might have.(Book 1 · §53–59)
- With: Chilon Peisistratos
- “When Chilon had thus recommended, Hippocrates, they say, was not willing to be persuaded, and so there was born to him afterwards this Peisistratos;”
Book 1 · §53–59
- with Chilon (interaction) “Chilon the Lacedemonian, who chanced to have been present and to have seen the marvel, advised Hippocrates first not to bring into his house a wife to bear him children, and secondly, if he happened to have one already, to dismiss her, and if he chanced to have a son, to disown him.”
- child: Peisistratos “and so there was born to him afterwards this Peisistratos”
Book 5 · §63–69
- child: Peisistratos “Hippocrates had given to his son the name of Peisistratos”
Book 6 · §126–133
- parent: Megacles “this son, I say, was born to Megacles, and also Hippocrates:”
- child: Megacles (son of Hippocrates) “and of Hippocrates came another Megacles and another Agariste, called after Agariste, the daughter of Cleisthenes”
- child: Agariste (daughter of Hippocrates) “and of Hippocrates came another Megacles and another Agariste, called after Agariste, the daughter of Cleisthenes”
- parent: Agariste “this son, I say, was born to Megacles, and also Hippocrates”
Book 7 · §149–155
- siblings with Cleander (son of Pantares) “then Hippocrates succeeded to the monarchy, who was brother of Cleander.”
- servant: Gelon “Gelon, who was a descendant of Telines the priest of the mysteries, was spearman of the guard to Hippocrates with many others and among them Ainesidemos the son of Pataicos.”
- servant: Ainesidemos “Gelon, who was a descendant of Telines the priest of the mysteries, was spearman of the guard to Hippocrates with many others and among them Ainesidemos the son of Pataicos.”
- child: Eucleides “then Gelon made a pretence of helping the sons of Hippocrates, Eucleides and Cleander, when the citizens were no longer willing to submit”
- child: Cleander (son of Hippocrates) “then Gelon made a pretence of helping the sons of Hippocrates, Eucleides and Cleander, when the citizens were no longer willing to submit”
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