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Hippias

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Hippias , tyrant (527 BC-510 BC) of Athens, eldest son of Pisistratus . Hippias governed Athens after the death of his father. His younger brother Hipparchus was closely associated in office with him until Hipparchus was assassinated in 514 BC At first Hippias attempted to work with his opponents, the Alcmaeonidae, but his rule became harsher as the Persians advanced. In 510 BC he was overthrown by the Alcmaeonidae and the Spartans and went into exile. He lived at the court of Darius and was with the Persian forces at Marathon. Author not available, HIPPIAS. , The Columbia... Read more

Hippias
...527–510). He succeeded his father, Peisistratus , as tyrant . Hippias was a patron of poets and craftsmen, and Athens prospered under his...490 to land at Marathon , which resulted in a major Persian defeat. Hippias Hippias Hippias Read more

Harmodius and Aristogiton
...Hipparchus and his brother, the tyrant Hippias . The plans miscarried; Hipparchus was killed, but Hippias was not hurt. Harmodius was killed on the...recognition after the expulsion (510 BC) of Hippias. Two public statues, executed by Antenor... Read more

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	(book reviews) ; ALLEN, R. E., trans, and comment. Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras: The Dialogues...thus far have been superb. Allen's Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras presents these...life. The most intriguing feature of Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras is Allen's commentary... Read more
	Splitting images: communication in classical Athens. (2,500 Years of Democracy) ; ...sculpture of the tyrant-slayers, whose assassination of the tyrant Hippias' brother was popularly believed to have inaugurated the democracy...to defend even seemingly indefensible positions. The sophist Hippias could offer special mnemonic devices to improve memory capacity... Read more
	Phronesis: Vol. 50, No. 3, July 2005.(Character overview) ; ...distinction is implicitly at work in Plato's Hippias Minor, where Socrates defends Odysseus' polutropia against the pseudo simplicity of Hippias' favourite hero, Achilles. However, whereas...a distinction sheds a new light on the Hippias Minor: Odysseus is polutropos in the first... Read more
	WHAT A WONDERFUL TIME TO VISIT GREECE ; ...democratic government was founded 2,500 years ago. Greece will not only be celebrating events of 510 BC -- when the tyrant Hippias was driven out of Athens and Klisthenis instituted free elections and a constitution that brought all free Athenians into the... Read more
	Dancy, R.M. Plato's Introduction of Forms.(Book review) ; ...meticulous logical analyses of Socrates' refutations in what he calls the Definitional Socratic dialogues (Charmides, Euthyphro, Hippias Major, Laches, Lysis, and Republic I). Second, he shows how the Meno, characterized as transitional, rejects parts of the theory... Read more
	Plato, The Republic.(Brief article)(Book review) ; ...Press has previously published his translations of the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Gorgias, Menexenus; the Symposium, Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras and Parmenides. Intended for the student and general reader, this edition is accompanied by Allen... Read more
	THE PRESENCE OF THE PARADIGM: IMMANENCE AND TRANSCENDENCE IN PLATO'S THEORY OF FORMS.(Critical Essay) ; ...pious actions (Euthyphro); beautiful things (Greater Hippias); virtues, bees, or shapes (Meno). Socrates then demands...must itself not be any one of them. In the Greater Hippias, when Hippias is asked What is the beautiful?(7) that is, what is... Read more
	Bruell, Christopher. On the Socratic Education: an Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues.(Book Review) ; ...I], Second Alcibiades, Laches, Euthydemus, Greater Hippias, Lesser Hippias, Theages, Euthyphro, Apology, Ion, the fairly long...diagnosis of his companions' errors (compare p. 77, Hippias Major 281c3-d2, 282e9-283a7 with Thucydides III, 104... Read more
	Mirror stage: infinite reflections on the public good. ; ...ill-breeding. Maybe it is in the Theaetetus. Or maybe in one of those works nobody actually reads, like the Charmides or the Lesser Hippias. I could tell you, but I won't: bad manners. And of course it is possible Socrates was just kidding anyway. Precision is God... Read more
	Asking the big questions: perspectives.(Link-up@Home: your personal guide to the Web)(Web sites that offer content about subject of philosophy) ; ...Fortunately, a special peer-reviewed search engine called Hippias (http://hippias.evansville .edu) produces results that are limited...accredited educational sites. Thus, a search for Derrida on Hippias yields 349 matches, compared with 209,000 on Google... Read more

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