Aristogiton
Family: Athenian · Role: conspirator · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3
Harmodius told Aristogiton that Hipparchus had solicited him; Aristogiton was Harmodius’ lover. Together they arranged a conspiracy to overthrow the tyranny, with their accomplices to support them against the bodyguard. When they suspected that Hippias had been warned, they abandoned their plan to attack him.
At the festival, Aristogiton and Harmodius attacked and killed Hipparchus near the Leocorium; another account places the killing near the temple of the daughters of Leos, while Hipparchus arranged the Panathenaic procession. Aristogiton escaped the guards at first, but was afterwards captured and executed.
Relationship record
Life events
- Harmodius and Aristogiton suspected Hippias had been warned and abandoned their plan to attack him.(Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3)
- Harmodius and Aristogiton killed Hipparchus while he was arranging the Panathenaic procession.(Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3 · 📍 near the temple of the daughters of Leos)
- With: Harmodius Hipparchus
- “fell upon Hipparchus near the temple of the daughters of Leos, and slew him as he was arranging the Panathenaic procession.”
- Harmodius told Aristogiton that Hipparchus had solicited him.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 4)
- With: Harmodius
- “Solicited without success by Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus, Harmodius told Aristogiton”
- Aristogiton and Harmodius arranged a conspiracy to overthrow the tyranny.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 4)
- With: Harmodius
- “Aristogiton and Harmodius were to begin, but were to be supported immediately by their accomplices against the bodyguard.”
- Aristogiton and Harmodius attacked and killed Hipparchus.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 4 · 📍 the Leocorium)
- With: Harmodius Hipparchus
- “and meeting with Hipparchus by the Leocorium recklessly fell upon him at once, infuriated, Aristogiton by love, and Harmodius by insult, and smote him and slew him.”
- Aristogiton was captured and executed.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 4)
- “Aristogiton escaped the guards at the moment, through the crowd running up, but was afterwards taken and dispatched in no merciful way”
- Harmodius and Aristogiton conspired and committed the rash action.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 5)
- With: Harmodius
- “In this way offended love first led Harmodius and Aristogiton to conspire, and the alarm of the moment to commit the rash action recounted.”
Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3
- with Hipparchus (Harmodius and Aristogiton killed Hipparchus together.) “fell upon Hipparchus near the temple of the daughters of Leos, and slew him as he was arranging the Panathenaic procession.”
- with Harmodius (They acted together in the plot against Hipparchus.) “The general Athenian public fancy that Hipparchus was tyrant when he fell by the hands of Harmodius and Aristogiton, not knowing that Hippias, the eldest of the sons of Pisistratus, was really supreme, and that Hipparchus and Thessalus were his brothers; and that Harmodius and Aristogiton suspecting, on the very day, nay at the very moment fixed on for the deed, that information had been conveyed to Hippias by their accomplices, concluded that he had been warned, and did not attack him, yet, not liking to be apprehended and risk their lives for nothing, fell upon Hipparchus near the temple of the daughters of Leos, and slew him as he was arranging the Panathenaic procession.”
Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 4
- courtship with Harmodius “Harmodius was then in the flower of youthful beauty, and Aristogiton, a citizen in the middle rank of life, was his lover and possessed him.”
Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 5
- with Harmodius (They conspired together.) “In this way offended love first led Harmodius and Aristogiton to conspire”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.