According to Herodotus, Hippocleides became intoxicated and began to act like a fool; at one point, he stood on his head and kicked his legs in the air, keeping time with the flute music.
[2] Herodotus' description insinuates a bawdy pun: the phrase "danced the bride away" may also be read as "displayed your testicles", in reference to Hippoclides standing on his head while wearing a tunic, which would have exposed his genitals to the guests.
[3] She gave birth to two sons, Hippocrates and Cleisthenes, the reformer of the Athenian democracy, and a daughter, Coesyra, who married Peisistratus.
[4] Hippocrates was the father of another Megacles (ostracized 486 BC), who was the maternal grandfather of Alcibiades,[5] and a daughter, Agariste, the mother of Pericles and Ariphron.
W. K. Lacey felt that Agariste was an epikleros, or sole heiress who was required to have children to perpetuate her father's family.