Harmodius and Aristogiton
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Aristogiton and Harmodius · men of Gephyraean descent
in the texts
Ancient Law
The Athenian tyrannicides credited in Callistratus's song with giving Athens its equality of laws.
It is remarkable too that the “equality” of laws on which the Greek democracies prided themselves—that equality which, in the beautiful drinking song of Callistratus, Harmodius and Aristogiton are said to have given to Athens—had little in common with the “equity” of the Romans.
The Histories
The two Gephyraean men who assassinated Hipparchus, later commemorated at Athens.
First Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus and brother of the tyrant Hippias, had been slain by Aristogiton and Harmodius, men of Gephyraean descent.
Now the Gephyraean clan, of which the slayers of Hipparchus were members, claim to have come at first from Eretria, but my own enquiry shows that they were among the Phoenicians who came with Cadmus to the country now called Boeotia.