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Updated: June 21, 2025
Although it is probable that the patriotism of Aristogiton and Harmodius "the beloved" has been elevated in after times beyond its real standard, yet Mr. Mitford is not justified in saying that it was private revenge, and not any political motive, that induced them to conspire the death of Hippias and Hipparchus.
As for Aristogiton, he puts him not forth at the back door, but thrusts him directly out of the gate into Phoenicia, saying that he had his original from the Gephyraeans, and that the Gephyraeans were not, as some think, Euboeans or Eretrians, but Phoenicians, as himself has heard by report.
Aristogiton turned to fly he escaped the guards, but was afterward seized, and "not mildly treated" by the tyrant. Such is the phrase of Thucydides, which, if we may take the interpretation of Justin and the later writers, means that, contrary to the law, he was put to the torture . Harmodius was slain upon the spot. The news of his brother's death was brought to Hippias.
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.
"I will entwine my bright sword in myrtle, After the example of Harmodius and Aristogiton." But he stopped, for the arrival of Eunice was announced.
Seventeenth Year of the War Parties at Syracuse Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton Disgrace of Alcibiades Meanwhile at Syracuse news came in from many quarters of the expedition, but for a long while met with no credence whatever.
Of which the healthy loves of Harmodius and Aristogiton are instances. And therefore it is that they called it sacred and divine, and conceive that nothing but the violence of tyrants and the baseness of the common people are inimical to it.
The young man at first refused to speak; but after a while, pretending to yield, he named some of the tyrants' friends who were helping him oppress the Athenians. The tyrant, in dismay, sent for the accused, and had them and Aristogiton killed without trial. When he found out his mistake, he again tried to learn the names of the real conspirators.
Hippias fled to the court of Artapher'nes, governor of Lydia, then a part of the Persian dominion of Dari'us, where his intrigues largely contributed to the opening of a war between Persia and Greece. The names of Harmodius and Aristogiton have been immortalized by what some writers term "the ignorant or prejudiced gratitude of the Athenians."
Harmodius and Aristogiton did not justify Brutus and Cassius: but neither do Brutus and Cassius criminate Harmodius and Aristogiton. The rule applies till an extreme case occurs; and how can this be proved? I answer, the only proof is success and good event; for these afford the best presumption, first, of the extremity, and secondly, of its remediable nature the two elements of its justification.
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