Aristogeiton

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Aristogeiton ( ancient Greek Ἀριστογείτων ) was one of the tyrant murderers of Athens . He came from the Demos Aphidnai and belonged to the tribe of Gephyra who immigrated to Athens .

Statues of the murderers Harmodios and Aristogeiton. Roman marble copies of Greek bronze sculptures from 477/476 BC BC National Archaeological Museum, Naples

Together with his friend Harmodios , he belonged to a group of conspirators that wanted to eliminate the Peisistratid tyranny in Athens. During the Great Panathenaic Islands of 514 BC They wanted to carry out an attack on the tyrant brothers Hippias and Hipparchus . At the place of execution, the Leokoreion as the starting point of the parade in the north-west of the agora , however, only Hipparchus was apparently present and was killed. While Harmodios fell immediately after the attack, Aristogeiton managed to escape in the turmoil. However, he was arrested soon after and died during the torture that followed. According to a report attributed to Aristotle , he only revealed the names of tyrant friends under torture and still mocked Hippias after the latter shook hands with Aristogeiton on the pretext of being able to find out more names. Thereupon Hippias personally put an end to the life of Aristogeiton.

The motives for the act were Aristogeiton's jealousy as Erastes of the younger Harmodios on Hipparchus and the denigration or defamation of the sister of Harmodios.

After the fall of tyranny and the expulsion of Hippias in 510 BC. A memorial was erected on the agora to the murderers of the tyrants , the second version of which is known from Roman copies - after the robbery of the original group committed by Xerxes .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Plutarch , quaestiones convivales 1,10,3 .
  2. ↑ Herodotus 5.57 .
  3. ↑ Herodotus 5: 55f. ; 6,123 ; Thucydides 1.20 . 6.55-59 ; Aristotle , Athenaion politeia 18 ; Diodorus 9,1,4 .
  4. ↑ Aristotle, Athenaion politeia 18.5 f.
  5. ↑ Diodorus 10:17 ; Plutarch, Amatorius 16:27 ; Aristotle, Rhetoric 2,1401 b .
  6. ↑ Thucydides 6.56 ; Aelian , varia historia 11.8 .
  7. ↑ Iustinus , epitoma historiarum Philippicarum 2.9 .
personal data
SURNAME Aristogeiton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ἀριστογείτων
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek tyrant murderer
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH 514 BC Chr.
Place of death Athens