Alcmeonidae
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the Alcmeonidae · the Alcmeonid family
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
Prominent Athenian family, including Cleisthenes, exiled under a curse and instrumental in overthrowing the tyranny.
For the Alcmeonidae were pretty nearly most responsible for the expulsion of the tyrants, and they continued to be at strife for the most part.
Isagoras, falling short in power, again called in Cleomenes, who was his guest-friend, and persuaded him to drive out the curse, since the Alcmeonidae were thought to be among the accursed.
The exiles, whom the Alcmeonidae led, could not by themselves accomplish their return, but were always failing.
The Histories
The prominent Athenian noble family accused of treasonous collusion with Persia after Marathon, whom Herodotus defends at length and traces through several generations of wealth, marriage, and political influence.
but the Alcmeonidae plainly liberated their country, if they truly were the ones who persuaded the Pythian priestess to signify to the Lacedaemonians that they should free Athens, as I have previously shown.
The Alcmeonidae had been men of renown at Athens even in the old days, and from the time of Alcmeon and then Megacles their renown increased.
It is a wonder to me, and I do not believe the story, that the Alcmeonidae would ever have agreed to hold up a shield as a sign for the Persians out of a desire to make Athens subject to foreigners and to Hippias;
Concerning the Team of Horses
The powerful Athenian clan to which Alcibiades the elder belonged through his mother, celebrated for wealth, Olympic victory, and opposition to tyranny.
On the female side he was of the Alcmeonidae, who left behind a glorious memorial of their wealth;
And during the forty years of civic discord the Alcmeonidae were hated so much more bitterly than all other Athenians by the tyrants that whenever the tyrants had the upper hand they not only razed their dwellings, but even dug up their tombs;