Aristogiton
historical figure · 5 works · 8 mentions · 12 anchored passages
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
One of the two Athenians who assassinated Hipparchus alongside Harmodius.
For instance, the mass of the Athenians think that Hipparchus was tyrant when he was slain by Harmodius and Aristogiton;
[For the daring deed of Aristogiton and Harmodius was undertaken in consequence of a love-adventure;
Now Harmodius being in the flower of youth and beauty, Aristogiton, a citizen of middle rank in the city, was enamoured of him, and enjoyed his favour.
Against Leptines
Athenian tyrannicide named as ancestor of an exempted family.
After the words to the end that the wealthiest citizens may perform the public services, he added no one shall be immune save and except, the descendants of Harmodius and Aristogiton.
For the first clause of the law says Leptines proposed that, to the end that the wealthiest citizens may perform the public services, none shall be immune save and except the descendants of Harmodius and Aristogiton.
None, says this law, shall be immune save and except the descendants of Harmodius and Aristogiton.
Tusculan Disputations
Athenian tyrannicide cited as a rhetorical exemplar of glorious death.
Harmodius is on every lip and Aristogiton;
Funeral Oration
One of the two Athenian tyrannicides (with Harmodius) who killed Hipparchus, invoked in the underworld comparison as a paradigm equalled or surpassed by Leosthenes.
Those too, I fancy, who gave the people the surest token of their mutual friendship, Harmodius and Aristogiton, do not regard as Leosthenes and his comrades in arms;
On Benefits
Athenian tyrannicide, cited with Harmodius.
2 But, by Hercules, the Athenians call Harmodius and Aristogiton tyrant-slayers, and the hand left by Mucius on the enemy's altar was as good as Porsenna slain, and virtue ever struggling against fortune has shone forth even short of effecting the work proposed.