Hipparchus

Family: Athenian · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3

Hipparchus was a son of Pisistratus and brother of Hippias and Thessalus. The Athenian public thought he was tyrant when he was killed, but Hippias, the eldest son, was really supreme.

Harmodius rejected Hipparchus’s solicitations; after a second rejection, Hipparchus arranged to insult him by inviting his sister to carry a basket in a procession and then rejecting her as unworthy. While Hipparchus was arranging the Panathenaic procession, Harmodius and Aristogiton attacked and killed him near the temple of the daughters of Leos; another account places the attack at the Leocorium.

Relationship record

Life events

• Harmodius and Aristogiton killed Hipparchus while he was arranging the Panathenaic procession.(Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3 · 📍 near the temple of the daughters of Leos)
  • With: Harmodius Aristogiton
  • “fell upon Hipparchus near the temple of the daughters of Leos, and slew him as he was arranging the Panathenaic procession.”
• Harmodius rejected Hipparchus's solicitation.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 4)
  • With: Harmodius
  • “Solicited without success by Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus, Harmodius told Aristogiton”
• Harmodius rejected Hipparchus's second solicitation.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 4)
  • With: Harmodius
  • “Hipparchus, after a second solicitation of Harmodius, attended with no better success”
• Hipparchus arranged to insult Harmodius after his solicitations were rejected.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 4)
  • With: Harmodius
  • “unwilling to use violence, arranged to insult him in some covert way.”
• Hipparchus invited Harmodius's sister to carry a basket, then rejected her as unworthy.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 4)
  • With: Harmodius
  • “by first inviting a sister of his, a young girl, to come and bear a basket in a certain procession, and then rejecting her, on the plea that she had never been invited at all owing to her unworthiness.”
• Aristogiton and Harmodius attacked and killed Hipparchus.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 4 · 📍 the Leocorium)
  • With: Aristogiton Harmodius
  • “and meeting with Hipparchus by the Leocorium recklessly fell upon him at once, infuriated, Aristogiton by love, and Harmodius by insult, and smote him and slew him.”

Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3

• parent: Pisistratus “The general Athenian public fancy that Hipparchus was tyrant when he fell by the hands of Harmodius and Aristogiton, not knowing that Hippias, the eldest of the sons of Pisistratus, was really supreme, and that Hipparchus and Thessalus were his brothers;”
• siblings with Hippias “The general Athenian public fancy that Hipparchus was tyrant when he fell by the hands of Harmodius and Aristogiton, not knowing that Hippias, the eldest of the sons of Pisistratus, was really supreme, and that Hipparchus and Thessalus were his brothers;”
• siblings with Thessalus “The general Athenian public fancy that Hipparchus was tyrant when he fell by the hands of Harmodius and Aristogiton, not knowing that Hippias, the eldest of the sons of Pisistratus, was really supreme, and that Hipparchus and Thessalus were his brothers;”
• with Harmodius (Harmodius and Aristogiton killed Hipparchus together.) “fell upon Hipparchus near the temple of the daughters of Leos, and slew him as he was arranging the Panathenaic procession.”
• with Aristogiton (Harmodius and Aristogiton killed Hipparchus together.) “fell upon Hipparchus near the temple of the daughters of Leos, and slew him as he was arranging the Panathenaic procession.”

Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 4

• parent: Pisistratus “Solicited without success by Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus, Harmodius told Aristogiton, and the enraged lover,”
• siblings with Hippias “Pisistratus dying at an advanced age in possession of the tyranny, was succeeded by his eldest son, Hippias, and not Hipparchus, as is vulgarly believed.”
• siblings with Thessalus “the pillar placed in the Athenian Acropolis, commemorating the crime of the tyrants, which mentions no child of Thessalus or of Hipparchus, but five of Hippias”
• admired: Harmodius “Solicited without success by Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus, Harmodius told Aristogiton, and the enraged lover, afraid that the powerful Hipparchus might take Harmodius by force, immediately formed a design, such as his condition in life permitted, for overthrowing the tyranny.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.