Assassination of Ephialtes
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Ephialtes's assassination · murder of Ephialtes
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
Treacherous killing of Ephialtes shortly after his reforms
And Ephialtes too was made away with, treacherously murdered not long after by Aristodicus of Tanagra.
Pericles
The secret killing of Ephialtes by Aristodicus of Tanagra, and the separately reported accusation that Pericles orchestrated it.
How, then, can one put trust in Idomeneus, who accuses Pericles of assassinating the popular leader Ephialtes, though he was his friend and a partner in his political program, out of mere jealousy and envy of his reputation?
As for Ephialtes, who was a terror to the oligarchs and inexorable in exacting accounts from those who wronged the people, and in prosecuting them, his enemies laid plots against him, and had him slain secretly by Aristodicus of Tanagra, as Aristotle says.