Archedike (daughter of Hippias)
Archedike ( Greek Ἀρχεδίκη ) was a in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Living daughter of the Athenian tyrant Hippias and granddaughter of Peisistratus .
After the murder of his brother Hipparchus, Hippias sought political connections with foreign countries and married Archedike to Aiantides of Lampsakos , the son of the Lampak tyrant Hippoklos . So he could count on the fact that Hippoklos, who was influential at the court of Darius I , would grant him asylum if he should feel compelled to leave Athens . Archedike died in Lampsakos and received a funerary monument here, the metrical epitaph of which was passed down by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides . According to Aristotle , the poet Simonides von Keos wrote this tomb inscription, according to which Archedike, despite the great power of her father, husband and sons, did not succumb to megalomania.
literature
- Johannes Toepffer : Archedike 4 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 440 f.
Remarks
- ↑ a b Thucydides , Peloponnesian War 6,59,2 f.
- ↑ Aristotle, Rhetoric 1, 9, 20, p. 1367 b.
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| SURNAME | Archedike |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Daughter of the Athenian tyrant Hippias |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC Chr. |
| Place of death | Lampsakos |