Hippias

American  

[hip-ee-uhs] / ˈhɪp i əs /

noun

1. flourished 6th century b.c., tyrant of Athens (brother of Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus).

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Example Sentences

The Greek tyrant Hippias lunged at Piper, his dagger raised, but Piper blasted him point-blank in the chest with a lovely pot roast.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Plato reflects this theory in making Hippias declare that the measure of man's right is what the state commands.

From Concerning Justice by Emery, Lucilius A.

In like manner Hippias, or, according to Aristotle, Hipparchos, was in the outer Cerameicos, "arranging how each part of the Panathenaic procession ought to go forward," when he was attacked by Harmodios and Aristogeiton.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.

Gorgias taught rhetoric and politics, Prodicus grammar and etymology, Hippias history, mathematics and physics.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

But were there really no registers, ἀναγραφαί, from which Hippias could have copied?

From Problems in Greek history by Mahaffy, John Pentland