Alcmaeonidae
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Alcmaeonid · Alcmeonidae · the Alcmaeonidae
in the texts
Against Meidias
Athenian family line associated with democratic opposition to tyrants and with Alcibiades' ancestry.
For Alcibiades, Athenians, was on his father’s side one of the Alcmaeonidae, who are said to have been banished by the tyrants because they belonged to the democratic faction, and who, with money borrowed from Delphi, liberated our city, expelling the sons of Peisistratus, and on his mother’s side he claimed descent from Hipponicus and that famous house to which the people are indebted for many eminent services.
The Histories
Prominent exiled Athenian family, held responsible for the killing of Cylon's followers and thus branded 'the Accursed', who later bribe the Pythian priestess and lead the movement to free Athens.
Although they were subject to any penalty save death, they were slain, and their death was attributed to the Alcmaeonidae.
Previously they had had no knowledge of these oracles but now Cleomenes brought them to Sparta, and the Lacedaemonians learned their contents.
This he said in his message by Isagoras ' instruction, for the Alcmeonidae and their faction were held to be guilty of that bloody deed while Isagoras and his friends had no part in it.