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Hyperbolus. Ostracon against Hyperbolus (c. 417 BC). Hyperbolus ( Greek: Ὑπέρβολος, Hyperbolos; died 412/411 BC) was an Athenian politician active during the first half of the Peloponnesian war, coming to particular prominence after the death of Cleon. In 416 or 415 BC, he was the last Athenian to be ostracised .
4 days ago · Hyperbolus (411 bc) (d. 411 bc),5th‐cent. Athenian demagogue during and after the Archidamian War (431–421; see peloponnesian war), esp. prominent after the death of Cleon. He is sneered at in comedy for his doubtful paternity and foreign origin, but ostraka (see ostracism War) show his father had a perfectly normal and reputable Greek name.
hyperbole: [noun] extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones").
Other articles where Hyperbolus is discussed: Alcibiades: …joining forces with Nicias against Hyperbolus, the successor of the demagogue politician Cleon as champion of the common people. In 416 Alcibiades restored his reputation by entering seven chariots at Olympia and taking first, second, and fourth places. This made it easier for him, in 415, to persuade the Athenians…
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The Athenian politician Hyperbolus lived around 400 BC. Though accounts vary, most experts believe he was the son of Antiphanes, a child of slaves, and a prolific writer and poet. Hyperbolus became active in politics during the start of the Peloponnesian war. The politician served in the trierarch, a group that assumed the responsibility for ...
variant details on the factions combined against Hyperbolus.12 Later antiquity heard much but knew little of Hyperbolus. He is a traditional villain in authors so diverse as Quintilian, Lucian, and Aelian.13 The stories grew to the point where a scholiast could assert that Hyperbolus had been a general,14 and Himerius could imagine a ...
In 417, 416, or 415 (the date is disputed) an ostracism was held by which Hyperbolus expected to secure the removal of *Alcibiades or *Nicias (1), but they secretly allied against him, and he was himself ostracized. He went to *Samos, where he was murdered by oligarchical revolutionaries. He is condemned by *Thucydides (2) in unusually violent ...
