Histories

Such is the tale of the choice among the suitors; and thus the fame of the Alcmeonidae resounded throughout Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas. From this marriage was born that Cleisthenes, named after his mother's father from Sikyon [22.725,37.9833] (Perseus)Sicyon, who gave the Athenians their tribes and their democracy;

he and Hippocrates were born to Megacles; Hippocrates was father of another Megacles and another Agariste, called after Agariste who was Cleisthenes' daughter. She was married to Xanthippus son of Ariphron, and when she was pregnant she saw in her sleep a vision in which she thought she gave birth to a lion. In a few days she bore Xanthippus a son, Pericles.