Hippias

Role: tyrant · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 23

Hippias was the son of Pisistratus. After the death of Hipparchus, he tortured Leæna to death, suspecting she knew of the plot against Hipparchus. In Book 6, Chapter 13, a statue of Scæus is attributed to Hippias.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hippias tortured Leæna to death, suspecting her knowledge of Aristogiton’s plot.(Book 1 · Chapter 23)
  • With: Leæna
  • “Hippias tortured her to death, knowing that she had been Aristogiton’s mistress, and thinking that she could not have been ignorant of the plot against Hipparchus.”

Book 1 · Chapter 23

• parent: Pisistratus “Pisistratus and his son Hippias”
• with Leæna (interaction) “Hippias tortured her to death, knowing that she had been Aristogiton’s mistress”

Book 6 · Chapter 13

• with Scæus (Hippias made the statue of Scæus.) “his statue is by Hippias”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.