Megacles

Family: Sea-side · Role: archon · First appears: Solon

Life events

• Pisistratus seized the Acropolis, prompting Megacles and his family to flee.(Solon · 📍 Acropolis)
  • With: Pisistratus
  • “until he seized the Acropolis. When that was done, and the city in an uproar, Megacles, with all his family, at once fled;”
• Dion and Megacles declared Sicily free and were elected generals with plenary powers.(Dion · 📍 Syracuse)
  • With: Dion
  • “Dion and Megacles, who were come to overthrow the tyrannical government, did declare the Syracusans and all other Sicilians to be free from the tyrant.”

Solon

• child: Alcmaeon “Megacles, the son of Alcmaeon, those to the Sea-side;”
• rivals with Pisistratus “When Solon was gone, the citizens began to quarrel; Lycurgus headed the Plain; Megacles, the son of Alcmaeon, those to the Sea-side; and Pisistratus the Hill-party”
• parent: Alcmaeon “Megacles, the son of Alcmaeon, those to the Sea-side”
• enemies with Cylon “the remainder of the faction of Cylon grew strong again, and had continual quarrels with the family of Megacles”

Alcibiades

• child: Dinomache “Dinomache, his mother, was the daughter of Megacles.”

Pyrrhus

• friends with Pyrrhus “changing places as he did”

Cimon

• child: Euryptolemus “Euryptolemus, the son of Megacles”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.