{{Short description|5th-century BC Athenian military commander}} {{Infobox military person | name = Hipponicus III | native_name = Ἱππόνικος | birth_date = {{circa}} 485 BC | death_date = 422/1 BC (aged {{circa}} 63) | allegiance = [[Classical Athens|Athens]] | children = [[Callias III]], [[Hipparete]] and Hermogenes }} '''Hipponicus III''' ({{IPAc-en|h|ɪ|ˈ|p|ɒ|n|ɪ|k|ə|s}}; {{langx|el|Ἱππόνικος}}; {{Circa}} 485 BC – 422/1 BC) was an [[Athens|Athenian]] military commander. He was the son of [[Callias II]] of the deme Alopece and [[Elpinice]] of Laciadae (sister of [[Cimon]]). He was known as the "richest man in Greece".<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The People of Plato, p. 172-3|last=Nails|first=Debra}}</ref>
Shortly after 455 BC, Hipponicus married the former wife of [[Pericles]], whose name is unknown. By her, he had two children: [[Callias III]] and a daughter, [[Hipparete]] who later married [[Alcibiades]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Athenian Propertied Families (APF), 7826.9|last=Davies|first=J. K.}}</ref> A second son, Hermogenes was probably illegitimate since he received none of his father's estate.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The People of Plato, p. 162.|last=Nails}}</ref>
Hipponicus' wealth came from, among other things, his owning six hundred slaves working at the silver mines at [[Mines of Laurion|Laurion]] in southern Attica.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Ways and Means, iv.15|last=Xenophon}}</ref>
In 445/4 BC he was secretary of the Athenian Council (''boule'')<ref name=":0" /> and was still active as late as 426 BC when he, [[Nicias]] and [[Eurymedon (strategos)|Eurymedon]] commanded Athenian regiments in an incursion into [[Boeotia]]n territory where they successfully engaged Tanagran and Theban forces at [[Tanagra]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=History of the Peloponnesian War, iii.91.4|last=Thucydides}}</ref>
Hipponicus was reported by [[Andocides]] to have been slain at the [[Battle of Delium]] in 424 BC,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Against Alcibiades, §13|last=Andocides}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book|title=History of the Peloponnesian War, iv.90 ff.|last=Thucydides}}</ref> According to [[Athenaeus]], Hipponicus died shortly before [[Eupolis]] exhibited his comedy ''Flatterers'' during the archonship of Alcaeus ( 422/1).<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Deipnosophists, §59|last=Athenaeus}}</ref>
[[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]], in his Varieties of History, reports this anecdote about Hipponicus:<ref>{{Cite book|title=Varieties of History, xiv.16|last=Aelian}}</ref>
<blockquote> ''Hipponicus'' son of ''Callias'' would erect a Statue as a Gift to his Country. One advised him that the Statue should be made by ''[[Polykleitos|Polycletus]]''. 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 admire ''[[Polykleitos|Polycletus]]'' and not me."</blockquote>
== References == {{Reflist}}
===Sources=== * Aelian. ''Varieties of History.'' http://penelope.uchicago.edu/aelian/index.xhtml * Athenaeus. ''The Deipnosophists''. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a2013.01.0003 http://www.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://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0200 * Xenophon. ''Ways and Means''. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0210%3atext%3dWays
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