Harmodius and Aristogeiton
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Aristogeiton · Harmodius · descendants of Harmodius and Aristogeiton
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
The celebrated tyrannicides honored with offerings by the polemarch.
The polemarch sacrifices to Artemis Agrotera and to Enyalius, and administers the funeral contest, and makes offerings to those who have died in war and to Harmodius and Aristogeiton.
Orations
Athenian tyrannicides whose descendants were the only ones exempted from the law of Leptines revoking immunities.
And further, the law made certain ones exempt, those reputed to have most benefited the city, the descendants of Harmodius and Aristogeiton;
Among the Athenians, then, especially in the time of Philip, when they had yielded the leadership and clung only to freedom that remained, a certain Leptines introduced a law that it was necessary to take away the immunities from those who held them from the people, except those descended from Harmodius and Aristogeiton, and that henceforth it should no longer be allowed to give anyone this gift.
The Histories
The famous Athenian tyrannicides who killed Hipparchus, invoked twice in this passage as a benchmark of civic glory that Herodotus argues others surpassed.
Thus in my judgment it was they who freed Athens much more than did Harmodius and Aristogeiton.
“Callimachus, it is now in your hands to enslave Athens or make her free, and thereby leave behind for all posterity a memorial such as not even Harmodius and Aristogeiton left.