Cleisthenes
Family: Athenian · Role: Athenian political leader · First appears: Book 5 · §70–77
Book 5 · §70–77
- enemies with Isagoras “this message he sent by instruction of Isagoras, for the Alcmaionidai and their party were accused of the murder to which reference was thus made, while he and his friends had no part in it.”
- enemies with Cleomenes “First then Cleomenes sent a herald to Athens demanding the expulsion of Cleisthenes and with him many others of the Athenians”
- with Cleomenes (interaction) “Cleisthenes himself retired secretly; but after that nevertheless Cleomenes appeared in Athens with no very large force, and having arrived he proceeded to expel as accursed seven hundred Athenian families, of which Isagoras had suggested to him the names.”
Book 6 · §126–133
- parent: Megacles “this son, I say, was born to Megacles, and also Hippocrates”
- parent: Agariste “this son, I say, was born to Megacles, and also Hippocrates”
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