Hipponicus III
Hipponicus III | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Ἱππόνικος |
| Born | c.485 BC |
| Died | 422/1 BC (agedc.63) |
| Allegiance | Athens |
| Children | Callias III,Hippareteand Hermogenes |
Hipponicus III(/hɪˈpɒnɪkəs/;Greek:Ἱππόνικος;c.485 BC – 422/1 BC) was anAthenianmilitary commander. He was the son ofCallias IIof the deme Alopece andElpiniceof Laciadae (sister ofCimon). He was known as the "richest man in Greece".[1]
Shortly after 455 BC, Hipponicus married the former wife ofPericles,whose name is unknown. By her, he had two children:Callias IIIand a daughter,Hipparetewho later marriedAlcibiades.[2]A second son, Hermogenes was probably illegitimate since he received none of his father's estate.[3]
Hipponicus' wealth came from, among other things, his owning six hundred slaves working at the silver mines atLaurionin southern Attica.[4]
In 445/4 BC he was secretary of the Athenian Council (boule)[1]and was still active as late as 426 BC when he,NiciasandEurymedoncommanded Athenian regiments in an incursion intoBoeotianterritory where they successfully engaged Tanagran and Theban forces atTanagra.[5]
Hipponicus was reported byAndocidesto have been slain at theBattle of Deliumin 424 BC,[6]but this appears to have been an error, either on Andocides' part or a later transcriber, for Thucydides reported that the general at Delium was Hippocrates.[7]According toAthenaeus,Hipponicus died shortly beforeEupolisexhibited his comedyFlatterersduring the archonship of Alcaeus ( 422/1).[8]
Aelian,in his Varieties of History, reports this anecdote about Hipponicus:[9]
Hipponicusson ofCalliaswould erect a Statue as a Gift to his Country. One advised him that the Statue should be made byPolycletus.He answered, "I will not have such a Statue, the glory whereof will redound not to the Giver, but to the Carver. For it is certain that all who see the Art, will admirePolycletusand not me. "
References[edit]
- ^abNails, Debra.The People of Plato, p. 172-3.
- ^Davies, J. K.Athenian Propertied Families (APF), 7826.9.
- ^Nails.The People of Plato, p. 162.
- ^Xenophon.Ways and Means, iv.15.
- ^Thucydides.History of the Peloponnesian War, iii.91.4.
- ^Andocides.Against Alcibiades, §13.
- ^Thucydides.History of the Peloponnesian War, iv.90 ff.
- ^Athenaeus.The Deipnosophists, §59.
- ^Aelian.Varieties of History, xiv.16.
Sources[edit]
- Aelian.Varieties of History.http://penelope.uchicago.edu/aelian/index.xhtml
- Athenaeus.The Deipnosophists.http:// perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a2013.01.0003http:// perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman
- Davies, J. K.Athenian Propertied Families.Oxford: OUP, 1971.
- Nails, Debra.The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics.Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, 2002.
- Thucydides.History of the Peloponnesian War.http:// perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0200
- Xenophon.Ways and Means.http:// perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0210%3atext%3dWays