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The Killing of Hipparchus: Tyranny, Love, and the Birth of Democracy
In 514 BCE, two men assassinated the Athenian tyrant Hipparchus during the Panathenaic procession. But the story we think we know is tangled: was it politics or a lover's quarrel? This episode untangles the murder of Hipparchus from the rise of the democracy that followed. We look at the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the cult that grew around them, the statue group that stood in the Agora, and how a personal vendetta got rewritten as the founding act of Athenian freedom. We also weigh the evidence: Herodotus gives a different version than Thucydides, and both had agendas. And…
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