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date: 15 June 2025

Hyperbolus (d. 411 bc), 5th-cent. Athenian demagogue 

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The Oxford Classical Dictionary
Author(s):
Henry Dickinson WestlakeHenry Dickinson Westlake, Simon HornblowerSimon Hornblower

during and after the *Archidamian War, specially prominent after the death of *Cleon. He is sneered at in comedy for his doubtful paternity and foreign (?slave) origin, but ostraca (... ...

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