Editing Megacles (section)

== Alcmaeonidae ==
The third Megacles, the grandson of the above eponymous archon, son of [[Alcmaeon, son of Megacles|Alcmaeon]] and member of the [[Alcmaeonidae]] family, was an opponent of [[Peisistratos (Athens)|Pisistratus]] in the 6th century BC. He drove out Pisistratus during the latter's first reign as [[tyrant]] in 560 BC, but the two then made an alliance with each other, and Pisistratus married Megacles' daughter. [[Herodotus]] says that they also tricked the Athenians into believing Athena herself had arrived to proclaim Pisistratus tyrant, by dressing up a woman named [[Phye]] as the goddess, although Herodotus himself casts doubt on the truth of this story.<ref>Herodotus 1.60</ref> However, Megacles turned against Pisistratus when Pisistratus refused to have children with Megacles' daughter, which brought an end to the second tyranny.<ref>Herodotus 1.61</ref>

This Megacles earlier had competed with [[Hippocleides]], a future [[archon]] of Athens, to marry [[Agariste of Sicyon|Agarista]], the daughter of [[Cleisthenes of Sicyon]]. They had two sons.  The elder was [[Hippocrates the elder|Hippocrates]], whose children were another Megacles (ostracized 486 BC) and a daughter Agariste, the mother of [[Pericles]] and [[Ariphron]] (himself the father of [[Hippocrates of Athens]] who died 424 BC). The younger son was [[Cleisthenes]], who was allegedly the grandfather of [[Deinomache]] (or Dinomache), mother of [[Alcibiades]] (d. 404 BC). Thus, Megacles the elder was great-grandfather of [[Pericles]] and the great-great-grandfather of [[Alcibiades]].