Look up tyrannicide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tyrannicide or tyrannomachia is the killing or assassination of a tyrant or unjust ruler, purportedly...
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Harmodius and Aristogeiton (redirect from Aristogeiton the Tyrannicide)
514 BC) were two lovers in Classical Athens who became known as the Tyrannicides (τυραννόκτονοι, tyrannoktonoi) for their assassination of Hipparchus...
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Harmodius and Aristogeiton (sculpture) (redirect from The Tyrannicides (sculpture))
A sculptural pairing of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton (Ancient Greek: Ἁρμόδιος καὶ Ἀριστογείτων, romanized: Harmodios, Aristogeitōn) was...
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Monarchomachs (section Theory of tyrannicide)
16th century, known in particular for having theoretically justified tyrannicide. The term was originally a pejorative word coined in 1600 by the Scottish...
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Tyrannicide was a 14-gun brigantine-rigged sloop of the Massachusetts State Navy. The ship was built for the American Revolutionary War and participated...
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Tyrannicide was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. In 1794, under Alain Joseph Dordelin, she took part in the Glorious First of June. Along...
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liberty, and Lucius Brutus. These coins show Brutus' admiration for the tyrannicides of the early republic, already mentioned by Cicero as early as 59 BC...
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Herzegovina. Žerajić was the first in Bosnia and Herzegovina to pursue tyrannicide as a method of political struggle. His act had great impact on the youth...
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the Monarch of the United Kingdom. Thomas Aquinas condoned extra-legal tyrannicide in the worst of circumstances: When there is no recourse to a superior...
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Caesar's candidates. Whether the Romans thought they had a tradition of tyrannicide is unclear; Cicero wrote in private as if the duty to kill tyrants was...
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Habsburg positioned in Altdorf, in the canton of Uri. Tell's defiance and tyrannicide encouraged the population to open rebellion and make a pact against the...
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Satire 7 by Horace, written approximately 30 BC, mentions Brutus and his tyrannicide; in discussing that poem, author John Henderson considers that the expression...
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BC, and father of the tyrannicide, was put to death in 77 BC at Pompey's instigation. Marcus Junius M. f. Brutus, the tyrannicide. He was adopted by his...
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Richard the Third: Thomas More's Fragment and his Answer to Lucian's Tyrannicide". Modern Language Review. 109 (3): 629–639. doi:10.5699/modelangrevi...
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Massachusetts State Navy in July 1776 as First Lieutenant of the sloop-of-war Tyrannicide, fourteen guns. On board for two years, he captured many prizes, becoming...
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Ἀριστογείτων) was the name of two eminent Athenian citizens: Aristogeiton the Tyrannicide, who assassinated Hipparchus in 514 BC; see Harmodius and Aristogeiton...
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Liber OZ (section Safeguard tyrannicide)
freedoms, including the controversial assertion of the right to commit tyrannicide. Crowley's aim was to encapsulate the principles of Thelema in a manner...
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worse than death. Aquinas' doctrines of the Fair Price, of the right of tyrannicide and of the equality of all the baptized sons of God in the Communion...
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Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-1410-1014-4 Robertson, Geoffrey (2005), The Tyrannicide Brief, London: Chatto & Windus, ISBN 0-7011-7602-4 Russell, Conrad (1990)...
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Regicide – killing a ruler, a King/Queen (Latin: rex, gen. regis "king"). Tyrannicide – killing a tyrant. Magnicide – killing a major political figure. Algaecide...
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Policraticus (section Tyrannicide)
an axe anywhere it grows". This was the first systematic defense of tyrannicide to be written after antiquity. Policraticus, ed. K. S. B. Keats-Rohan...
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