Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. XANTHIPPUS AND THEMISTOCLES. Xanthippus?Birth of Pericles?Ionian revolt? Miltiades, the son of Cimon?Battle of Marathon?Condemnation of Miltiades?Themisto- cles?Aristides and Xanthippus oppose The- mistocles?The Eginetan war?Party struggles ?Themistocles victorious ? Construction of a fleet?The Persian invasion. ROM the time that his reforms were completed, little is known of Clis- thenes. He is said to have been ostracised, and the same fate twice befel his son Megacles, whose daughter Dinomache became the mother of Alci- biades. But Hippocrates, the younger brother of Clisthenes, was the father of a second Agariste, and from this daughter, who married Xanthippus of the old Athenian family of the Buzygae, was born Pericles. Though not himself an Alcmaeonid, Xanthippus seems to have acquired a considerable portion of the influence of the family by marrying into it. For sixteen years (from 494 to 478) he was one of the most prominent men in Athens. It was he who brought Miltiades to trial; who, with Aristides, endeavoured to thwart the plans of Themistocles.In 479 he commanded the Athenian ships at Mycale; and, in the ensuing spring, he conquered Sestos Then, like so many of the leading Greek statesmen in the evening of their lives, he disappears from our view and nothing more is recorded of him, Pericles was probably born about the year 493 B.C. Even before his birth, indications of his future greatness were not wanting. Herodotus, at any rate, believed a story, which was current in his time, that Agariste, a few days before the birth of her great son, dreamed that she was delivered of a lion. The year of his birth was not a happy one in Athenian annals. In 494 B.C. the great city of Miletus had fallen before the arms of Persia, and the ill-timed an…
