Hyperbolus
historical figure · 5 works · 7 mentions · 8 anchored passages
that Hyperbolus
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Clouds
The historical Athenian demagogue Hyperbolus, mocked both as the new target of rival comic poets and as a mismanager of sacred timekeeping.
But these scribblers, when once Hyperbolus has given them a handle, keep ever trampling on this wretched man and his mother.
For which reason Hyperbolus, having obtained the lot this year to be Hieromnemon, was afterward deprived by us gods of his crown;
And yet Hyperbolus learned this at the cost of a talent.
Orations
Athenian demagogue cited as an example of audacity that still did not dishonor the Areopagus.
For even among the Athenians, who were of all men the most democratic and assigned the most to the common and popular sort, no demagogue ever became so audacious — not even that Hyperbolus or Cleon — as to consider the Areopagus or the council of the six hundred less honourable than the people.
And after these, perhaps, you will say that certain others became daimones of the Athenians, such as Alcibiades the son of Cleinias, and Nicias and Cleon and Hyperbolus—some of them perhaps fair enough, others utterly base and harsh.
On the Commonwealth
Athenian demagogue named as a target of comic invective.
Granted, it injured popular men, wicked, seditious in the commonwealth—Cleon, Cleophon, Hyperbolus.
On the Peace
A later Athenian popular leader used as a negative foil to earlier statesmen.
Now the polity as it was in the earlier time was as much better and stronger than that which obtained later as Aristides and Themistocles and Miltiades were better men than Hyperbolus and Cleophon and those who today harangue the people.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Ostracized Athenian killed by the oligarchic conspirators at Samos.
They also put to death one Hyperbolus, an Athenian, a base fellow, who had been ostracised, not from fear of his influence or rank, but for his villany, and for being a disgrace to the city;