Hagnodorus

Hagnodoros was an Attic citizen at the time of the Peloponnesian War and the brother-in-law of the tyrant Critias .

Hagnodoros came from the Attic Demos Amphitrope, who belonged to the Phyle Antiochis and was northeast of Thrikos. As the rhetor Lysias reports in his speech against Agoratos , he was a brother-in-law of Critias, who belonged to the group of " Thirty Tyrants " in Athens 404–403 BC. Chr. Held a leadership role. Since Critias himself probably remained a bachelor, the designation as "brother-in-law" indicates that Hagnodorus was married to a sister of Critias.

As Hagnodoros 404 BC BC learned that his fellow member Menestratos in connection with the actions of the oligarchic government against the democratic opposition in 404 BC. As Lysias reports, he asked his brother-in-law, Kritias, that Menestratus should be spared. Kritias took on the case and made sure that a popular resolution was passed at a popular meeting in the theater of Munychia (in a district of Athens) and that Menestratos was released - probably on the condition that he would reveal everything he knew. After his release, the frightened Menestratos proved to be cooperative and put numerous names on record, whereupon the citizens he denounced were executed.

After the overthrow of the oligarchic government (403 BC) Menestratos was charged with his denunciations , convicted and beaten to death by the executioner with a club.

No further details have been passed on about the fate of Hagnodorus.

swell

• Lysias: Speech against Agoratos . (Section 54).

literature

• Karl-Wilhelm Welwei : Classical Athens . Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 1999, ISBN 3-89678-117-0 .