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Hegesistratus
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<p>Hegesistratus is an ancient Greek name. Some people with this name were: </p> <ol><li>A Greek <a href="/facts/Divination/b8gLkFfv">diviner</a> for <a href="/facts/Mardonius_(general)/nmL6MS0Q">Mardonius</a> during the <a href="/facts/Greco-Persian_Wars/avlfmxyh">Greco-Persian Wars</a>. Originally an <a href="/facts/Elean/prfwVshs">Elean</a>, he had been captured by the <a href="/facts/Sparta/6V9o1DSz">Spartans</a> and put in bonds. He escaped by cutting off a piece of his own foot and replaced it with a wooden one; however, he was captured again at <a href="/facts/Zacynthus/pr8Ic1u2">Zacynthus</a> and put to death. This story is mentioned in the ninth book (chapter 37) of the <i><a href="/facts/Histories_(Herodotus)/bdAH6VGu">Histories</a></i> written by <a href="/facts/Herodotus/hTgRSAnv">Herodotus</a>.</li> <li>An emissary from <a href="/facts/Samos/bBJufQRK">Samos</a> to the Greeks before the <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Mycale/zn3w1BVQ">Battle of Mycale</a>.</li> <li>A despot of <a href="/facts/Sigeum/Hw4EGMFX">Sigeum</a>.</li> <li>An <a href="/facts/Ephesian/5ryM9eyB">Ephesian</a> committed a murder in his family, and fled to Delphi; on consulting the oracle what place to settle in, the answer was, that when he should come to a place where he should see the country people dancing with garlands of olive-leaves, he should settle there. He travelled and found what the oracle told him, and there built the city <a href="/facts/Elaeus/n3cH3A3U">Elaeus</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Democritus/yTzsod3v">Democritus</a> was the son of Hegesistratus, though some say of Athenocritus, and others of Damasippus.</li> <li>The governor of <a href="/facts/Miletus/E2x1XLYY">Miletus</a>, during the <a href="/facts/Siege_of_Miletus/SCddwD8v">Siege of Miletus</a> by <a href="/facts/Alexander_the_Great/8N3gLElj">Alexander the Great</a>.</li></ol>