Alcibiades

The family of Alcibiades, it is thought, may be traced back to Eurysaces,[*](Plat. Alc. 1 121) the son of Aias, as its founder; and on his mother’s side he was an Alcmaeonid, being the son of Deinomache, the daughter of Megacles. His father, Cleinias, fitted out a trireme at his own cost and fought it gloriously at Artemisium.[*](480 B.C.) He was afterwards slain at Coroneia,[*](447 B.C.) fighting the Boeotians, and Alcibiades was therefore reared as the ward of Pericles and Ariphron, the sons of Xanthippus, his near kinsmen.[*](They were first cousins, once removed.)