Ephialtes
historical figure · 8 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Ephialtes son of Sophonides
in the texts
On the murder of Herodes
An Athenian citizen whose murderers were never discovered, cited by the speaker as a precedent showing that companions of a murder victim should not be held responsible merely because the killer was never found.
For instance, the murderers of one of your own citizens, Ephialtes, have remained undiscovered to this day;
Constitution of the Athenians
Popular leader, reputed incorruptible and just, who stripped the Areopagus of its powers and was later assassinated
and after them Ephialtes of the people, and Cimon son of Miltiades of the well-to-do;
And Ephialtes too was made away with, treacherously murdered not long after by Aristodicus of Tanagra.
Seventh, after this, the one Aristides indicated and Ephialtes completed, by overthrowing the Council of the Areopagus;
Against Aristocrates
Father of Philocrates in the cited anecdote.
and, remembering also that, when Philip was besieging Amphipolis, he pretended to be doing so in order to hand the place over to you, but that, when he had got it, he annexed Potidaea into the bargain, you will sh to have the same sort of assurance that, according to the story, Philocrates, son of Ephialtes, once opposed to the Lacedaemonians.
Letters
An Athenian named among the deceased friends of the people listed together with Lycurgus as champions the city has lost.
So, when it is possible for all to behold object-lessons of such a kind and on such a scale, from which everyone would conclude that it does not pay to espouse the cause of the people, I begin to fear that some day you may become destitute of men who will speak on your behalf, especially when of the friends of the people some are being taken away by man’s natural destiny, by accident, and by the l …
Orations
Mythological Boeotian giant, brother of Otus.
and the Boeotians Otus and Ephialtes, whom Homer says were the greatest and fairest born after Orion, and that man himself.
Iliad
Son of Aloeus who, with his brother Otos, once imprisoned Ares.
Ares had to suffer when Otos and Ephialtes, children of Aloeus, bound him in cruel bonds, so that he lay thirteen months imprisoned in a vessel of bronze.
Odyssey
Giant son of Poseidon and Iphimedeia who, with his brother Otus, attempts to storm Olympus and is killed by Apollo.
She bore two sons Otus and Ephialtes, but both were short lived.
Hellenica
Father of Philocrates.
and while sailing thither he fell in with Philocrates, the son of Ephialtes, sailing with ten triremes from Athens to Cyprus for the purpose of aiding Euagoras, and captured all ten.