Anthemocritus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Philip’s Letter
A figure whose arrest by the Megarians was commemorated by Athens as an outrage.
Yet violation of the rights of heralds and ambassadors is regarded by all men as an act of impiety, and by none more than by you, if I may judge from the fact that, when the Megarians arrested Anthemocritus, your Assembly went to the length of excluding them from the celebration of the mysteries, and actually erected a statue before the city gates to commemorate the outrage.
Pericles
Athenian herald sent to Megara and Sparta, allegedly killed by the Megarians, later honored with burial at the Thriasian gates.
But the Megarians denied the murder of Anthemocritus, and threw the blame for Athenian hate on Aspasia and Pericles, appealing to those far-famed and hackneyed versicles of the Acharnians:
But after the herald who was sent, Anthemocritus, had been put to death through the agency of the Megarians, as it was believed, Charinus proposed a decree against them, to the effect that there be irreconcilable and implacable enmity on the part of Athens towards them, and that whosoever of the Megarians should set foot on the soil of Attica be punished with death;