Hippoclus
Hippoclus (
Ancient Greek: Ἳπποκλος), tyrant of Lampsacus, to whose son, Aeantides, Hippias gave his daughter Archedice in marriage, induced thereto, says Thucydides, by consideration of his influence at the Persian court.[1]
He is clearly the same who is named as tyrant of Lampsacus in the list of those who were left at the passage of the
Darius I.[2]
Notes
- ^ Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.59
- ^ Herodotus, Histories 4.138
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Clough, Arthur Hugh (1870). "Hippoclus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 480.