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Xanthippus (father of Pericles)

fl. 490s–479 BCE · 5th century BCE

Xanthippus was an Athenian statesman and general, the father of Pericles. Ostracised in 484 BCE, he was recalled during Xerxes' invasion and commanded the Athenian contingent at the victory of Mycale in 479 BCE. He then besieged and took Sestos on the Hellespont, the episode with which Herodotus ends his Histories.

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