Xenocrates
Ξενοκρὰτης
(Ξενοκρὰτης), historical.
1. Brother of Theron, tyrant of Agrigentum. He was victor in the chariot race at the Pythian games in B. C. 494. His son Thrasybulus seems to have acted as charioteer on the occasion. Pindar's sixth Pythian ode is addressed to him on the occasion.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.