Neocles, the father of Themistocles, connected with the priestly house of the Lycomedae (Plut. Them. i. p. 111; Herod. vii. 173).

Neocles, was an Athenian of no distinction and moderate means, his mother being a Carian or a Thracian. Hence according to the Periclean law, which of course came several decades later, he would not have been a free Athenian at all.