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	Hippocleides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He threw a large party at his court for the purpose of naming a successful suitor, inviting not only Megacles and Hippocleides, but any other contestants who wished to be considered.
		Hippocleides, knowing he was favored, showed off his talents, which included dancing to the flute to the admiration of all.
		He danced on a table, which was rather showy anyway, but he was finally so indelicate as to dance with his head on the table and his legs gyrating in the air.
	www.du.edu /~etuttle/classics/hippokl.htm (500 words)

	Alcmaeonidae - LoveToKnow 1911
		Their great wealth enabled them during their exile to enhance their reputation and secure the favour of the Delphian Apollo by rebuilding the temple after its destruction by fire in J48.
		Their importance is shown by the fact that Cleisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, gave his daughter Agariste in marriage to the Alcmaeonid Megacles in preference to all the assembled suitors after the undignified behaviour of Hippocleides.
		Under the statesman Cleisthenes, the issue of this union, the Alcmaeonids became supreme in Athens about 5r B.C. To them was generally attributed (though Herodotus disbelieves the story - see Greece, Ancient History, sect.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Alcmaeonidae (285 words)

	Hippocleides
		Cleisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, was even at this date so much in favour of competitive examinations, that he determined to give his daughter to the most proficient and accomplished man. On the appointed day the suitors came to the examination from every quarter, for the fair Agariste was heiress to great possessions.
		Among them was one Hippocleides, an Athenian, who proved himself far superior to all the rest in music and dissertation.
		Afterwards, when the trial was over, desiring to indulge his feelings of triumph and show his skill, he called for a piper, and then for a table, upon which he danced, finishing up by standing on his head and kicking his legs about.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Hippocleides.html (525 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 480 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The later poets and artists conceived and represented the horses of Poseidon and other marine divinities as a combination of a horse and a fish.
		HIPPOCLEIDES ('IwTTo/cAe/S?^), an Athenian, son of Tisander, came to the court of cleisthenes of Sicyon as one of the suitors of his daughter agarista.
		Cleisthenes was disposed to prefer him to the other suitors, and he would probably have won the lady, had he not disgusted Cleisthenes on the day appointed for the decision by indecent dancing and tumblers' tricks.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1588.html (827 words)

	Victor Davis Hanson on War on National Review Online
		Like Hippocleides, he was supposed to mouth all the correct platitudes to media pundits, strike all the right poses in front of the dour Europeans, be properly deferential to the tyrants and autocrats of the Middle East, and hourly court self-righteous international bureaucrats.
		Unfortunately, our liberated Hippocleides told the Koreans directly that the Communists to their north are really not free, but rather dangerous peoples — and that such despots, not us, need to walk gingerly.
		At some point all these leaders grew tired of the harangues of the status quo, and at last decided to do what they, not their detractors and pollsters, thought was necessary to preserve the peace and advance the cause of democracy and freedom.
	www.nationalreview.com /hanson/hanson030102.shtml (1185 words)

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		His wealth and prestige are apparent in the historian Herodotus' tale of how Cleisthenes hosted his daughter Agariste's 13 suitors at his palace for a year, observing them in sport, discourse, and so on, and gauging their aristocratic qualifications for marrying his daughter.
		Hippocleides, who outshone the others, was the one whom Cleisthenes had by now secretly chosen.
		And when Hippocleides started doing handstands on the table, beating time with his legs in the air, Cleisthenes cried out, "O, son of Teisander, you have danced away your wedding!" To which the young man replied, "Hippocleides doesn't care" (ou phrontis Hippokleidei).
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0132 (321 words)

	Megacles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		However, Megacles turned against Pisistratus when Pisistratus refused to have children with Megacles' daughter, thus ending the second tyranny.
		The latter Megacles competed with Hippocleides to marry to Agarista, the daughter of Cleisthenes of Sicyon.
		His son with Agarista, also named Megacles, was the grandfather of yet another Megacles, who himself was the uncle of Pericles.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/me/megacles.html (258 words)

	Hippocleides at AllExperts
		Hippocleides, the son of Teisander, was an Athenian nobleman, who served as Eponymous Archon for the year 566 BC-565 BC.
		By the end of the competitions, only Hippocleides and Megacles remained.
		According to Herodotus (6.129-130), Hippocleides became intoxicated during a dinner party with Cleisthenes, and began to act like a fool; at one point he stood on his head and kicked his legs in the air, keeping time with the flute music.
	en.allexperts.com /e/h/hi/hippocleides.htm (253 words)

	Hippocleides Doesn’t Care » Hippocleides doesn’t care
		Among the suitors was a young man named Hippocleides, the wealthiest and best-looking man in Athens.
		The tyrant of Sicyon was so pleased with Hippocleides he stood ready to proclaim him the winner.
		For his crowning achievement, Hippocleides stood on his head and gesticulated with his legs, keeping time to the music.
	www.teebiss.com /wordpress/?p=37 (336 words)

	Ou Phrontis - T. E. Lawrence Studies List
		From all over Greece a collection of suitors assembled, including Hippocleides, "the wealthiest and handsomest of the Athenians." The suitors were kept waiting a year, during which time they were called upon to display their talents, both physical and mental.
		Presently, as the drinking advanced, Hippocleides, who quite dumbfounded the rest, called aloud to the fluteplayer, and bade him strike up a dance; which the man did, and Hippocleides danced to it.
		Then, Hippocleides, after a pause, told an attendant to bring in a table; and when it was brought he mounted upon it and danced first of all some Laconian figures, then some Attic ones; after which he stood on his head upon the table, and began to toss his legs about.
	www.telstudies.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=73 (837 words)

	Welcome to the Dance
		Before announcing his decision, however, the king held one final banquet, at which the suitors could display not only their table manners, but also their mastery of the liberal arts curriculum of the time: public speaking and singing.
		Hippocleides decided to do his rivals one better, and, commanding the flute player to strike up a lively tune, began to dance.
		He frowned slightly at this innovative addition to the proceedings, then watched in growing dismay as Hippocleides danced with increasing enthusiasm and abandon, eventually climbing up on a table, standing on his head, and kicking his legs in the air!
	www.muhlenberg.edu /mgt/presoff/speech5.html (884 words)

	Just Gotta Dance
		For one reason or another it was the two Athenians who impressed Cleisthenes most favourably, and of the two Tisander's son Hippocleides came to be preferred, not only for his manly virtues but also because he was related some generations back to the family of Cypselus of Corinth.
		In both these accomplishments it was Hippocleides who easily proved his superiority to the rest, until at last, as more and more wine was drunk, he asked the flute-player to play him a tune and began to dance to it.
		Presently, after a brief pause, Hippocleides sent for a table; the table was brought, and Hippocleides, climbing on to it, danced first some Laconian dances, next some Attic ones, and ended by standing on his head and beating time with his legs in the air.
	www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk /dance.htm (691 words)

	Herodotus' Inquiries, Book 6: installment 34
		Then, when it had come to be the appointed of the days for the reclining down of the marriage and Cleisthenes himself’s asserting forth whom of all he gave the judgement to, having sacrificed a hundred oxen, Cleisthenes was entertaining sumptuously the suitors themselves and all Sicyonians.
		Then afterwards, having paused a time, Hippocleides bade someone bring in a table and, when the table had gone in, first danced Laconian figures, afterwards others, Attic ones, and the third dance: he supported his head on the table and gesticulated as with his hands with his legs.
		Now, from that saying that proverb is pronounced, and Cleisthenes, having had a silencing made, said in their midst this: “Men, suitors of my child, I both you all praise and you all, if it should be possible, would gratify by neither judging away one of you as chosen out nor rejecting away those left.
	www.losttrails.com /pages/Tales/Inquiries/Herodotus_34.html (3530 words)

	Ou Phrontis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He stood on his head on the table and did a leg-dance, which was objectionable in Greek dress.
		'You dance your marriage off.' 'Wyworri?' said Hippocleides: and Herodotus tells the tale so beautifully that I put the jape on the architrave.
		It means that nothing in Clouds Hill is to be a care upon its habitant.
	freewebs.com /ouphrontis/home.html (167 words)

	T. E. Lawrence Studies List > Ou Phrontis
		Hippocleides is the name of the dancer, and Agarista of the Princess who lost a husband.
		Clouds Hill was to be "a warm solitary place to hide in" (Letter to RV Buxton 4-10-23, DG p.435), a release from the grimness of service life and a sanctuary to write in, revising the Seven Pillars, and translating books for Jonathan Cape.
		On the subject of Lawrence vs. Hippocleides, John Mack suggests that Janet Laurie's refusal to take TEL seriously as a suitor is enough of a parallel incident.
	www.telstudies.org /forums/lofiversion/index.php?t73.html (2204 words)

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		At the end of a year, he gave a banquet and invited everyone in the city.
		His favorite appeared to be Hippocleides, described as the wealthiest and the most handsome of the Athenians.
		Under the influence of too much wine, however, Hippocleides danced on a table and stood on his head waving his legs.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=AGRW0013 (234 words)

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		φροντις (pronounced "ou phrontis") is a Greek phrase from one of Herdotus' stories, where a young man named Hippocleides loses his chance to marry a girl after getting drunk and standing on his head.
		The girl's father (Cleisthenes) tellls Hippocleides that he has danced away his marriage and the young man replies with "Ου φροντις" or "who cares." T.E. Lawrence liked the phrase so much that he personally carved it on the architrave (area above the door) of his cottage.
		This phrase is also sometimes translated as "worry not?" which seems a fitting name for a web site for a doll based on the personality of T.E. Lawrence.
	www.telawrence.com /ouphrontis/extras.htm (1998 words)

	Terpsichore and the architects: 'I have a deep sense of my body's architecture … the skeleton', said ...
		He would recompense each defeated suitor with one talent of silver, and the winner would be known throughout Greece as the best man of his age.
		One hundred oxen were slaughtered and as the feast progressed, the favoured suitor, Hippocleides, who had had one too many glasses of wine, called for a table to show off his excellence in dancing.
		For the Greeks, what you did with your body showed what sort of a man you were.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1290_216/ai_n6212588 (1002 words)

	Toby's got it!
		When Cleisthenes saw Hippocleides beating time with his legs in the air, he could bear it no longer.
		Cleisthenes then decided to give his daughter Agarista to another, to Megacles the son of Alcmaeon.
		This Agarista dreamt during her pregnancy that she gave birth to a lion, and a few days later became the mother of Pericles.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/23012 (259 words)

	Cycling Plus - Henrik Voigt - Get a Life!
		I think the person in question has screwed on their sensitive head quite firmly and mislaid their sensible one.
		'Son of Tisander,' he cried, 'you have danced away your marriage.' 'Hippocleides doesn't care,' was the reply.
		Do you expect them to be checking the forum over Christmas week?
	www.cyclingplus.co.uk /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=117165 (384 words)

	[2001: October] Re: Indecent Exposure (was Re: Test)
		> The dancing was enough to disqualify Hippocleides as a son-in-law,
		This is, I believe, the usual interpretation of the point here--that Hippocleides exposed his genitals during his little spell of breakdancing, and that that is what horrified Cleisthenes beyond endurance.
		As JMP notes, he says it's the dancing in general that disqualifies H. as a son-in-law, and the gestures with the legs in particular that make it impossible for Cleisthenes to maintain his silence any longer.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/CLA-L/2001/10/0351.php (346 words)

	Study Qeustions. Waaterfield herodotus 5 (part) and 6 (part). CLST 1003 Fall, 2004. Professor Daniel B. Levine
		What evidence does Herodotus offer about the innocence of the Alcmaeonidae in the incident of the shield signal?
		Why does Cleisthenes of Sicyon refuse to give his daughter Agariste's hand in marriage to the Athenian Hippocleides?
		What does this tell us about the importance of table manners?
	www.uark.edu /campus-resources/dlevine/Herodotus5.6.Waterfield.html (623 words)

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