Elpinice

Family: Athenian · Role: Cimon's sister · First appears: Pericles

Life events

Miltiades died in prison, leaving Cimon and Elpinice orphaned while still young.(Cimon)
- With: Miltiades Cimon
- “Miltiades, being condemned in a fine of fifty talents to the State, and unable to pay it, was cast into prison, and there died. Thus Cimon was left an orphan very young, with his sister Elpinice, who was also young and unmarried.”
Cimon betrothed Elpinice to Callias, who offered to pay Miltiades’ unpaid fine.(Cimon)
- With: Cimon Callias
- “But afterward, when Callias, one of the richest men of Athens, fell in love with her, and proffered to pay the fine the father was condemned in, if he could obtain the daughter in marriage, with Elpinice's own consent, Cimon betrothed her to Callias.”

siblings with Cimon “some private articles of agreement had been made between them, and this by means of Elpinice, Cimon's sister”

with Polygnotus (interaction) “was reported to have been over intimate with Polygnotus, the painter”
engaged with Callias “when Callias, one of the richest men of Athens, fell in love with her, and proffered to pay the fine the father was condemned in, if he could obtain the daughter in marriage, with Elpinice's own consent, Cimon betrothed her to Callias.”
admirer: Callias “when Callias, one of the richest men of Athens, fell in love with her”

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