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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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