Herodotus' Histories

Agariste

Family: Athenian · Role: daughter of Cleisthenes of Sikyon · First appears: Book 6 · §126–133

Book 6 · §126–133

  • parent: Cleisthenes of Sikyon “For Cleisthenes the son of Arisonymos, the son of Myron, the son of Andreas, had a daughter whose name was Agariste;”
  • admirer: Cleisthenes of Sikyon “For Cleisthenes the son of Arisonymos, the son of Myron, the son of Andreas, had a daughter whose name was Agariste; and as to her he formed a desire to find out the best man of all the Hellenes and to assign her to him in marriage.”
  • engaged with Megacles “and to the son of Alcmaion, Megacles, I offer my daughter Agariste in betrothal according to the customs of the Athenians.”
  • married with Megacles “And these having been married, there was born to them that Cleisthenes who established the tribes and the democracy for the Athenians, he being called after the Sikyonian Cleisthenes, his mother's father;”
  • child: Cleisthenes “this son, I say, was born to Megacles, and also Hippocrates”
  • child: Hippocrates “this son, I say, was born to Megacles, and also Hippocrates”
  • married with Xanthippos “who having been married to Xanthippos the son of Ariphron”

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