University theologians sympathized with John the Fearless and even published a justification of the murder as tyrannicide under the theory that the Duke of Orl�ans had been planning to usurp the throne.
32.
Here Renault draws on the tale of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, also known as the Tyrannicides ( ????????????? ), whose attack against the Peisistratid tyranny made them iconic personages of Athenian democracy.
33.
Following Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, Brutus revived his adoptive name in order to illustrate his links to another famous tyrannicide, Gaius Servilius Ahala, from whom he was descended.
34.
A drinking song to Harmodius, one of the famous tyrannicides of Athens, includes a reference to Diomedes as an inhabitant of the Islands of the Blessed, along with Achilles and Harmodius.
35.
During the French Wars of Religion, the Monarchomachs began to contest the divine right of kings, setting up the bases for the theory of popular sovereignty and theorizing the right of tyrannicides.
36.
By the 1880s, the slogan " propaganda of the deed " had begun to be used both within and outside of the anarchist movement to refer to individual bombings, regicides and tyrannicides.
37.
In 1408 the theologian Jean Petit used biblical examples to justify tyrannicide following the murder of Louis I, Duke of Orleans by Petit's patron John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy.
38.
The conspirators had decided, however, that the death of a single tyrant would be more symbolically effective, claiming that the intent was not a coup d'�tat, but tyrannicide.
39.
A few months after the arrest of Sindercombe, an apology for tyrannicide, entitled " Killing No Murder " which was ironically dedicated to Cromwell himself arrived in England from Holland.
40.
A representation of Ahala is given on a coin of consul, on his father's side, and from Ahala on his mother's, and thus was sprung from two tyrannicides.
