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Updated: May 18, 2025
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."
Emigrant nobles are returning in crowds, and are better received at the Tuileries than the men of the 10th of August. This cannot last. What is life without liberty? What terrors has death to the true patriot? The old Jacobin catches fire, bestows and receives the fraternal hug, and hints that there will soon be great news, and that the breed of Harmodius and Brutus is not quite extinct.
His friend, Aristogiton, was as angry as he; and the two young men, consulting together, decided that as long as these men ruled, the Athenians would be treated badly, and that it would be well to get rid of them soon. Harmodius and Aristogiton, having decided to get rid of the tyrants, told their plans to a few of their friends.
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.
Harmodius, a young citizen of no exalted rank, but much personal beauty, incurred the affront of his addresses . Harmodius, in resentment, confided the overtures of the moralist to his friend and preceptor, Aristogiton. While the two were brooding over the outrage, Hipparchus, in revenge for the disdain of Harmodius, put a public insult upon the sister of that citizen, a young maiden.
A moment afterwards the door of the study was opened, and I embraced my friend. "After the first warmth and salutations, we began to examine each other with an equal curiosity, for eight years had elapsed since we had last met. "'You are grown very thin and pale, said Harmodius, after a moment.
But they grew proud and insolent, and one day a damsel of high family was rudely sent away from a solemn religious procession, because Hipparchus had a quarrel with her brother Harmodius.
He became enamoured of Harmodius, and, since he failed to win his affection, he lost all restraint upon his passion, and in addition to other exhibitions of rage he finally prevented the sister of Harmodius from taking the part of a basket-bearer in the Panathenaic procession, alleging as his reason that Harmodius was a person of loose life.
Thou liv'st in the isles of the blest, 'tis said, With Achilles, first in speed, And Tydides Diomede. In a wreath of myrtle I'll wear my glaive, Like Harmodius and Aristogeiton brave, When the twain on Athena's day Did the tyrant Hipparchus slay. Even now, more than thirty years later, the breeze in the Sabine ilex seemed to be playing a wraith of the same tune.
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