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Such is the tale of the choice among the suitors; and thus the fame of the Alcmeonidae resounded throughout Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas. From this marriage was born that Cleisthenes, named after his mother's father from Sikyon [22.725,37.9833] (Perseus)Sicyon, who gave the Athenians their tribes and their democracy;
Such is the tale of the choice among the suitors; and thus the fame of the Alcmeonidae resounded throughout Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas. From this marriage was born that Cleisthenes, named after his mother's father from Sikyon [22.725,37.9833] (Perseus)Sicyon, who gave the Athenians their tribes and their democracy;
[2] he and
Hippocrates were born to
Megacles;
Hippocrates was father of another
Megacles and another
Agariste, called after
Agariste who was
Cleisthenes' daughter. She was married to
Xanthippus son of
Ariphron, and when she was pregnant she saw in her sleep a vision in which she thought she gave birth to a lion. In a few days she bore
Xanthippus a son,
Pericles.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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