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    sources claim that Hyperbolus was from a slave family, though the fact that his father had a Greek name makes this unlikely. Hyperbolus was a demagogue,...
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  • forces with Nicias against Hyperbolus, the successor of the demagogue politician Cleon as champion of the common people. Hyperbolus tries to bring about the...
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  • Democles Demosthenes Draco Echedemos Ephialtes Eratosthenes Eubulus Hagnon Hyperbolus Hypereides Laches Lycurgus Lysicles Miltiades Moerocles Nicias Pericles...
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    Ostracon against Hyperbolus (c. 417 BCE)....
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    Didymos (less certain) 440s Damon son of Damonides (less certain) 416 Hyperbolus son of Antiphanes (±1 year) Around 12,000 political ostraka have been...
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  • survive intact, but the titles of thirty of them are known, including a Hyperbolus (c. 420–416 BC), Victories (after 421), Cleophon (in 405), and Phaon (probably...
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    Tenaris hyperbolus onesimides Fruhstorfer, 1904 Tenaris dioptrica wattina Fruhstorfer, 1904 Taenaris tainia anella Stichel, 1906 Tenaris hyperbolus licinia...
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    through, as in his scathing appraisals of the democratic leaders Cleon and Hyperbolus. Sometimes, Cleon has been connected with Thucydides's exile. It has been...
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  • Pericles, 32). In the "Female Bread-Sellers", he attacked the demagogue Hyperbolus. The "Mat-Carriers" contains many parodies of Homer. Ninety-four fragments...
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    with Nicias to bring about the ostracism of the populist leader Hyperbolus. Hyperbolus was a frequent target of satire in Aristophanes' plays, a role previously...
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