Hippocrates (, ''Hippokrátēs'') was the father of
Peisistratos, the
tyrant
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of
Athens
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. According to
Herodotus
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, he received an omen when he was at
Olympia to see the
ancient Olympic Games
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. Vessels filled with meat and water spontaneously boiled over after he offered the sacrifice, though the vessels were not placed over fire.
Chilon the
Lacedaemonian (one of the
Seven Sages of Greece) advised him that he should disown his son, or if he did not have one, send his wife away, or else if he was not married, not to marry a wife who could bear children. Hippocrates ignored his advice, later having Peisistratos. Hippocrates claimed to be descended from the
Homeric chief and legendary King of
Pylos
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,
Nestor.
Notes
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Herodotus
Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the '' Histori ...
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i. 59, v. 65.Dictionary of Texas and Mississippi Biography and Mythology "Hippocrates" (1873)
* , (1870)
* , (1870)
References
* {{DGRBM, author=WS, title=Hippocrates No. 3, volume=2, page=481, url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0002.001/491
6th-century BC Athenians