Agariste
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Alcmaeonides’ wife · wife of Alcmaeonides
in the texts
On the Mysteries
The wife of Alcmaeonides, formerly married to Damon, who lodged the third information.
According to the wife of Alcmaeonides—she had previously been married to Damon and was named Agariste—according, as I say, to Alcmaeonides’ wife, Alcibiades, Axiochus, and Adeimantus celebrated Mysteries in Charmides’ house, next to the Olympieum.
The Histories
Daughter of Cleisthenes of Sicyon, married to Megacles of Athens after the suitor contest; grandmother of the reformer Cleisthenes.
” Megacles accepted the betrothal, and Cleisthenes brought the marriage to pass.
Cleisthenes son of Aristonymus son of Myron son of Andreas had one daughter, whose name was Agariste.
From this marriage was born that Cleisthenes, named after his mother's father from Sicyon, who gave the Athenians their tribes and their democracy;