Hipparchus son of Charmus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Hipparchus · Hipparchus son of Charmus of Collytus
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
Kinsman of the tyrants and the first Athenian ever ostracized.
And the first to be ostracized was one of his kinsmen, Hipparchus son of Charmus of Collytus, on whose account especially Cleisthenes had laid down the law, wishing to drive him out.
Against Leocrates
Athenian condemned to death by default for treason whose bronze statue was removed from the Acropolis and melted into an inscribed pillar of traitors.
When Hipparchus, the son of Charmus, did not stand his trial for treason before the people but let the case go by default, they sentenced him to death.
Clerk, please take the decree which authorized the statue of Hipparchus to be taken down from the Acropolis and then the inscription at the base of the pillar with the names of the traitors later engraved upon it and read them out.