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| | Hipparchus |
 | | Hipparchus obtained information from Alexandria as well as Babylon, but it is not known if and when he visited these places. | | | Hipparchus could confirm his computations by comparing eclipses from his own time (presumably 27 January 141 BC and 26 November 139 BC according to Toomer 1980), with eclipses from Babylonian records 345 years earlier (Almagest IV.2; Jones 2001). | | | Like others before and after him, he found that the Moon's size varies as it moves on its (eccentric) orbit, but he found no perceptible variation in the apparent diameter of the Sun. |
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http://www.yotor.com/wiki/en/hi/Hipparchus.htm
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| | The Internet Classics Archive The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides |
| | The commons had heard how oppressive the tyranny of Pisistratus and his sons had become before it ended, and further that that had been put down at last, not by themselves and Harmodius, but by the Lacedaemonians, and so were always in fear and took everything suspiciously. | | | There they found the Salaminia come from Athens for Alcibiades, with orders for him to sail home to answer the charges which the state brought against him, and for certain others of the soldiers who with him were accused of sacrilege in the matter of the mysteries and of the Hermae. | | | Aristogiton and Harmodius were to begin, but were to be supported immediately by their accomplices against the bodyguard. |
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http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.6.sixth.html
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| | Classics 258: Periclean Athens |
| | They say that in the morning he stroked the mare with his hand, which he then hid in his trousers until the sun rose and the horses were about to start, when he suddenly drew his hand forth and put it to the nostrils of his master's horse, which immediately snorted and neighed. | | | This they bade him do, because Prexaspes was a man of great weight with his countrymen, and had often declared in public that Smerdis the son of Cyrus was still alive, and denied being his murderer. | | | These troops were not sent by sea, but marched by the mainland. |
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http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/classics258/reading/Hdt.htm
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| | Glossary |
| | Son of Pisistratus who was assassinated by Harmodius and Aristogeton. | | | Lover of Aristogeton and Hipparchus, involved in an assassination attempt of Hippias | | | One of the assassins of Hipparchus of Athens |
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http://www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk/glossary.htm
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| | Homer, AlaskaHomer Information |
| | Tradition held that Homer was blind, and various Ionian cities are claimed to be his birthplace, but otherwise his biography is a blank slate. | | | As these men were not sent to war because their loyalty on the battlefield was suspect, they would not get killed in battles. | | | There is a theory that his name was back-extracted from the name of a society of poets called the Homēridai, which literally means "sons of hostages", i.e. |
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http://www.echostatic.com/Homer,_AlaskaHomer.html
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| | Repulsed from Sparta, Aristagoras went on to Athens, which had been liberated from autocratic government in the way which I will now describe. | | | The Gephyraei, to whom the two men who killed Hipparchus belonged...I have myself looked into the matter and find that they were really Phoenicians, descendants of those who came with Cadmus to what is now Boeotia where they were allotted the district of Tanagra to make their homes in. | | | At dawn next morning he was seen communicating his dream to the interpreters; but later he put it out of his mind and took part in the procession, during which he was killed. |
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http://phoenicia.org/alphabet.html
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| | Tyrant |
| | Pisistratus' sons Hippias (son of Pisistratus)Hippias and Hipparchus (son of Pisistratus)Hipparchus/, on the other hand, were overthrown, and Hipparchus was assassinated. | | | For instance, Pisistratus was remembered for an episode (related by Aristotle but possibly fictional) in which he exempted a farmer from taxation because of the particular barrenness of his plot. | | | Cypselus was the first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th century BC, and managed to bequeath his position to his son, Periander. |
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http://www.infothis.com/find/Tyrant
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| | Pisistratus, Greece, ancient history |
| | Pisistratus was succeeded by his two sons Hippias and Hipparchus. | | | His distinction came through the war against the Megarians (570-565BC). | | | Because of the increasing export, Pisistratus was able to finance waterpipes for the city. |
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http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/history/ancient/pisistratus.htm
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| | Hipparchus (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. | | | An asteroid named in his honour; see 4000 Hipparchus; | | | A dialogue ascribed to Plato; see Hipparchus (dialogue). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchus
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| | Hippias |
| | 6th century b.c., tyrant of Athens (brother of Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus). |
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http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/Hippias
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