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Hyperbolus Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
... (d. 411 bc ), 5th‐cent. Athenian demagogue during and after the Archidamian War ( 431–421 ; see peloponnesian war ), esp. prominent after the death of Cleon . He is sneered at in comedy for his doubtful paternity and foreign origin, but ostraka ( see ostracism War ) show his father had a perfectly normal and reputable Greek name. In c. 416 an ostracism was held by which Hyperbolus expected to secure the removal of Alcibiades or Nicias , but they secretly allied against him, and he was himself ostracized. He went to Samos , where he was...
Hyperbolus (d. 411 bc) Reference library
Henry Dickinson Westlake and Simon Hornblower
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
... ( d. 411 bc ), 5th-cent. Athenian demagogue 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 ( see ostracism ) show his father had the perfectly normal and reputable Greek name Antiphanes. In 417 , 416 , or 415 (the date is disputed) an ostracism was held by which Hyperbolus expected to secure the removal of Alcibiades or Nicias (1) , but they secretly allied against him, and he was himself ostracized. He...
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)
... ( d. 411 bc ) An Athenian demagogue during the Peloponnesian War, sneered at in comedy for his origins (he was reputedly a lamp-maker), detested by Thucydides and the butt of the comic poets. After the death of Cleon in 421 he became a leader of the people. A few years later, perhaps in 417 bc , an ostracism took place in which he expected to secure the removal of Nicias or Alcibiades , but they joined forces against him and he was ostracized himself. He went to Samos, where he was murdered by revolutionary...
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William Geoffrey Arnott
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
... (1) , writer of Old Comedy ( See comedy (greek), old ) active during the Peloponnesian War ( Suda λ 340). Fr. 1 mentions the politician Hyperbolus . Fragments PCG 5. 611–14. Interpretation Meineke , FCG 1 217 f.; A. Körte , RE 12/2 (1925), 2283, ‘Leukon’ 6. William Geoffrey...
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Kenneth James Dover
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
...(greek), old ), won his first victory at the City Dionysia c. 410 bc ( IG 2. 2325. 63). He produced Hyperbolus at some date during 420–416 bc , Victories after 421 (it referred to Ar. Pax ), Cleophon in 405 and Phaon (probably) in 391 . We have thirty titles and 300 citations. Many of the citations refer to people known to us from Aristophanes (esp. Av. ) and from historians. The titles ( see cleophon (1) ; hyperbolus ) show that many of his plays were strongly political, and at least one of them, Envoys , belongs to the 4th...
de'magogue (‘leader of the people’) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)
...or necessarily in the pejorative sense of an unprincipled mob orator. For the most part demagogues did not hold magistracies, so that they could not be called to account if any of the policies they advocated miscarried. The most notable of them at Athens were Cleon , Hyperbolus , Cleophon , and...
Eupolis Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
...poets of the Old Comedy. His first play was produced in 429 bc ; he won three victories at the Lenaea and at least one at the City Dionysia . Flatterers (421) ridiculed Callias (1) , for cultivating the company of sophists . Maricas (also 421) was an attack on Hyperbolus , comparable with Aristophanes ' attack on Cleon in Knights . In Demes great Athenians of the past were brought up from the Underworld to give advice to the present. In Taxiarchs the soft‐living Dionysus is subjected to hard military and naval training by Phormion ...
Clēophon Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
..., Athenian politician , d. 404 bc . He is represented as a lyre‐maker, and his mother was alleged to be Thracian ( see thrace ). He was already a public figure at the time of the ostracism of Hyperbolus , and was the most prominent demagogue , in the manner of Cleon , after the democratic restoration in 410 . He introduced a payment of two obols a day, possibly to citizens not otherwise receiving public funds. He attacked both Critias and Alcibiades , and was opposed to peace with Sparta both after Athens' victory at Cyzicus in 410 and...
Eu'polis Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)
.... None of his plays survives in manuscript, but we have nineteen titles and numerous quotations as well as some papyrus fragments. His comedies are similar in subject matter and style to those of Aristophanes. In Marikās (a non-Greek word meaning ‘catamite’) he attacked Hyperbolus much as Aristophanes did Cleon in Knights ; in Demoi (‘Demes’) great Athenians of the past were brought up from the Underworld to give the city good advice, and in Taxiarchoi (‘Corps-commanders’) he represented the god Dionysus undergoing hard military training under the...
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Howard Hayes Scullard and P. J. Rhodes
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
...for Athenian involvement which had been closed at the congress of Gela ( 424 ), but had little success (Thuc. 5. 4–5). He is best known for the assertion by Theophrastus that it was not Nicias (1) but he who combined with Alcibiades to secure the ostracism of Hyperbolus (cf. Plut. Nic. 11, Alc. 13). The speech preserved as Andocides 4, Against Alcibiades , was written in the character of Phaeax with reference to that ostracism: its authenticity continues to be disputed. PA 13921; APF 521–4; LGPN 2 (1994), Phaiax no. 1; W. D. Furley,...
