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Hippias

Athenian tyrant (527-510 BC), son and successor of Pisistratus, and brother of Hipparchus. He ruled with great severity after the assassination of Hipparchus 514 BC and was expelled from Athens, with all his family, by the Spartans under King Cleomenes I 510 BC.

After an attempt to reinstate him 508 BC failed, Hippias went to the Persian court, and later accompanied the Persian expedition to Marathon, the plan being to install him as puppet-ruler of Athens. He died, probably at Lemnos, on the return journey.


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There is Gorgias of Leontium, and Prodicus of Ceos, and Hippias of Elis, who go the round of the cities, and are able to persuade the young men to leave their own citizens by whom they might be taught for nothing, and come to them whom they not only pay, but are thankful if they may be allowed to pay them.
 
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