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    Harmodius

    historical figure · 14 works · 18 mentions · 26 anchored passages

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    Harmodius the Tyrannicide1 mention

    On the Estate of Dicaeogenes (Greek)

    In the first place, you preferred to possess our property rather than their glory, and wished to be called son of Dicaeogenes rather than of Harmodius, despising the right of dining in the town hall and disdaining the seats of honor and the immunities granted to the descendants of those heroes.
    on the estate of dicaeogenes

    in the texts

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    One of the two Athenians who assassinated Hipparchus, mistakenly believed by most Athenians to have killed a reigning tyrant.

    For instance, the mass of the Athenians think that Hipparchus was tyrant when he was slain by Harmodius and Aristogiton;
    chapter 1
    [For the daring deed of Aristogiton and Harmodius was undertaken in consequence of a love-adventure;
    chapter 6
    Harmodius, then, being solicited by Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus, and not prevailed upon, denounced him to Aristogiton.
    chapter 6

    Against LeptinesClassical · Greek

    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.
    against leptines
    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.
    against leptines
    None, says this law, shall be immune save and except the descendants of Harmodius and Aristogiton.
    against leptines

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Athenian tyrannicide, honored (per the speaker, inaccurately) as liberator of the city.

    when they name the Sciritan company of the Lacedaemonians, which never existed, as Thucydides says, and the Athenians honor Harmodius and Aristogeiton most of all, as having freed the city and killed the tyrant.
    oration 11
    And I know that Harmodius and Aristogeiton served as slaves among the Persians, and that the fifteen hundred statues of Demetrius of Phalerum were all taken down by the Athenians in one and the same day.
    parva 1

    Against TimarchusClassical · Greek

    One of the two Athenian tyrannicides, cited as an exemplar of noble same-sex devotion by the anticipated defense.

    He will cite first those benefactors of yours, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, describing their fidelity to one another, and telling how in their case this relationship proved the salvation of the state.
    against timarchus
    and so it was that those benefactors of the state, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, men pre-eminent for their virtues, were so nurtured by that chaste and lawful love—or call it by some other name than love if you like—and so disciplined, that when we hear men praising what they did, we feel that words are inadequate to the eulogy of their deeds.
    against timarchus

    Constitution of the AtheniansClassical · Greek

    Athenian who, with Aristogeiton, assassinated Hipparchus after a personal insult from Thettalus.

    Of the two, Harmodius died at once at the hands of the bodyguards;
    constitution of the athenians
    They were already watching for Hippias on the Acropolis during the Panathenaea (for it happened that Hippias was receiving the procession, while Hipparchus was dispatching it);
    constitution of the athenians
    For having fallen in love with Harmodius, and failing of his friendship, he could not restrain his anger, but showed his bitterness on other occasions, and at last, when the sister of Harmodius was about to carry a basket in the Panathenaea, he prevented her, abusing Harmodius as effeminate;
    constitution of the athenians

    Tusculan DisputationsHellenistic · Latin

    Athenian tyrannicide cited as a rhetorical exemplar of glorious death.

    But glorious deaths met for one's country are wont to seem to the rhetoricians not only glorious but even blessed.
    book 1

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Athenian tyrannicide whose plot against Hipparchus Leaena refused to betray.

    She, being privy to the plot of Harmodius and Aristogeiton against Hipparchus, did not in any way tell of it, though well tortured.
    book 4

    On the False EmbassyClassical · Greek

    Athenian tyrannicide or benefactor whose descendants received honors but were not immune from law.

    that more recently Thrasybulus, a son of Thrasybulus the great democrat, who restored free government from Phyle, should have paid a fine of ten talents that even a descendant of Harmodius and of the greatest of all your benefactors, the men to whom, in requital of their glorious deeds, you have allotted by statute a share of your libations and drink-offerings in every temple and at every public s …
    on the false embassy

    Against PhilippidesClassical · Greek

    One of the two legendary Athenian tyrannicides (with Aristogeiton), whose memory was protected by Athenian law from slander; invoked as a model of the honor properly owed to the city's benefactors.

    and secondly because the people drew up a law forbidding anyone to speak ill of Harmodius and Aristogeiton or sing disparaging songs about them.
    against philippides

    Funeral OrationClassical · Greek

    One of the two Athenian tyrannicides (with Aristogiton) 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;
    funeral oration

    On the Estate of DicaeogenesClassical · Greek

    The celebrated Athenian tyrannicide, forefather of Dicaeogenes (III.)'s paternal line, whose civic honors and immunities Dicaeogenes (III.) is accused of valuing less than money.

    In the first place, you preferred to possess our property rather than their glory, and wished to be called son of Dicaeogenes rather than of Harmodius, despising the right of dining in the town hall and disdaining the seats of honor and the immunities granted to the descendants of those heroes.
    on the estate of dicaeogenes

    HipparchusClassical · Greek

    A young Athenian, beloved of Aristogeiton, whose falling out with him over a young man's affections is presented as the truer motive for Hipparchus's assassination, which he and Aristogeiton carried out.

    Well, for a while this youth admired both Harmodius and Aristogeiton as wise men, but afterwards, when he associated with Hipparchus, he despised them, and they were so overcome with the pain of this “disqualification” that they slew Hipparchus.
    hipparchus

    On BenefitsImperial · Latin

    Athenian tyrannicide, cited with Aristogiton as an example of an attempted (not fully completed) deed still honored by name.

    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.
    book 7

    On Tranquillity of MindImperial · Latin

    Athenian tyrannicide invoked as a standard of resistance the city under the Thirty Tyrants could not muster.

    For where was the wretched city to find so many men like Harmodius?
    on tranquillity of mind