Megacles · Atlas

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CloudsClassical · Greek

A prominent, aristocratic Athenian family name (associated with the Alcmaeonids) invoked as the source of Strepsiades' wife's extravagance and his son's horse-mania.

My uncle Megacles will not permit me to be without a horse.

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Then I, a rustic, married a niece of Megacles, the son of Megacles, from the city, haughty, luxurious, and Coesyrafied.

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She used to take this son and fondle him, saying, When you, being grown up, shall drive your chariot to the city, like Megacles, with a xystis.

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The HistoriesClassical · Greek

Leader of the Athenian coastal faction and head of the Alcmeonid family, who both opposes and briefly allies with Pisistratus.

Megacles was very angry to be dishonored by Pisistratus;

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But after a short time the partisans of Megacles and of Lycurgus made common cause and drove him out.

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Then Megacles, harassed by factional strife, sent a message to Pisistratus offering him his daughter to marry and the sovereign power besides.

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Against AlcibiadesClassical · Greek

Maternal grandfather of Alcibiades, said to have been ostracized twice.

His mother’s father, Megacles, and his father’s father, Alcibiades, were both ostracized twice;

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Constitution of the AtheniansClassical · Greek

Leader of the coastal faction pursuing a middle constitutional path.

one of the men of the coast, of whom Megacles son of Alcmeon was the leader, who seemed especially to pursue the middle constitution;

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PythianClassical · Greek

The Athenian Alcmaeonid honored in Pythian 7 for his Pythian chariot victory, whose family's fine deeds the poet notes are repaid with envy.

Five Isthmian victories lead my song forward, and one outstanding triumph at Zeus’ Olympian games, and two from Cirrha — yours, Megacles, and your ancestors’.

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