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Tyrannicide or tyrannomachia is the killing or assassination of a tyrant or unjust ruler, purportedly for the common good, [1] and usually by one of the tyrant's subjects. [2] Tyrannicide was legally permitted and encouraged in Classical Athens .
Tyrannicide next sailed on 10 July 1778 under the command of John Allen Hallet. On 29 September 1778 she captured the privateer brig Juno. [7] After avoiding damage in a 9 March 1779 gale, she captured the 14-gun privateer Revenge on 31 March at 28° N, 68° W. Revenge mounted fourteen 4 and 6-pounder carriage guns and two swivel guns, and had a crew of 60. [8]
Statue of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, Naples.Roman copy of the Athenian version by Kritios and Nesiotes (see below) Harmodius (Greek: Ἁρμόδιος, Harmódios) and Aristogeiton (Ἀριστογείτων, Aristogeíton; both died 514 BC) were two lovers in Classical Athens who became known as the Tyrannicides (τυραννόκτονοι, tyrannoktonoi) for their assassination of ...
Robertson has written many books. [2] One of them, The Justice Game (1998), is on the school curriculum in New South Wales, Australia. [45] His 2005 book The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold details the story of John Cooke, who prosecuted Charles I of England in the treason trial that led to his ...
Such parallels were pointed out as early as 1760 by Gottlieb Emanuel von Haller and the pastor Simeon Uriel Freudenberger in a book titled "William Tell, a Danish Fable" (German: Der Wilhelm Tell, ein dänisches Mährgen). [34] This book offended Swiss citizens, and a copy of it was burnt publicly at the Altdorf square.
The term Monarchomachs was coined by William Barclay [5] in his book De Regno et Regali Potestate (”About the Powers of Authority and Royalty”), published in 1600. Barclay's theory was that the Huguenots had lost their struggle with the Catholic Church and were turning their battle towards the government to undermine the king's support of the Catholics.
The Ignorant Book-Collector (Fowler's title is Remarks addressed to an illiterate book-fancier) A diatribe against a Syrian book-collector. Περὶ τοῦ Ἐνυπνίου ἤτοι Βίος Λουκιανοῦ Somnium sive Vita Luciani The Dream or Lucian's Career
Three American vessels (brigantines) – Massachusetts (Captain John Fisk), [8] Tyrannicide (Captain Jonathan Harriden) and the brig Cabot (Captain Olney) - were sailing toward Nova Scotia and were confronted at 11:00 pm by HMS Milford. They waited until morning before they decided to attack.
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