Aristogeiton
[Harmodius.]
(Ἀριστογείτων), an Athenian orator and adversary of Demosthenes and Deinarchus. His father, Scydimus, died in prison, as he was a debtor of the state and unable to pay : his son, Aristogeiton, who inherited the debt, was likewise imprisoned for some time. He is called a demagogue and a sycophant, and his eloquence is described as of a coarse and vehement character. (Hennog. de Form. Orat. i. p. 296, and the Scholiast passim; Phot. Cod. p. 496; Plut. Phoc. 10 ; Quint. Inst. 12.10.22.) His impudence drew upon him the surname of " the dog." He was often accused by Demosthenes and others, and defended himself in a number of orations which are lost. Among the extant speeches of Demosthenes there are two against Aristogeiton, and among those of Deinarchus there is one. Suidas and Eudocia (p. 65) mention seven orations of Aristogeiton (comp. Phot. Cod. pp. 491, 495; Tzetz. Chil. 6.94, &c., 105, &c.; Harpocrat. s. vv. Ἀντοκλείδης and Θέρσανδρος), and an eighth against Phryne is mentioned by Athenaeus. (xiii. p. 591.) Aristogeiton died in prison. (Plut. Apophth. Reg. p. 188b.; compare Taylor, Praef. ad Demosth. Orat. c. Aristog. in Schaefer's Apparat. Crit. iv. p. 297, &c.; and Aeschin. c. Timarch. p. 22; S. Thorlacius, Opuscul. ii. pp. 201-240.) [L.S]
(Ἀριστογείτων), a statuary, a native of Thebes. In conjunction with Hypatodorus, he was the maker of some statues of the heroes of Argive and Theban tradition, which the Argives had made to commemorate a victory gained li, themselves and the Athenians over the Lacedaemonians at Ocnoe in Argolis, and dedicated in the temple of Apollo at Delphi. (Paus. 10.10.3.) The names of these two artists occur together likewise on the pedestal of a statue found at Delphi, which had been erected in honour of a citizen ot Orchomenus, who had been a victor probably in the Pythian games. (Böckh, Corp. Inscr. 25.) We learn from this inscription that they were both Thebans. Pliny says (34.8. s. 19), that Hypatodorus lived about O1. 102. The above-mentioned inscription was doubtless earlier than Ol. 104, when Orchomenos was destroyed by the Thebans.
The battle mentioned by Pausanias was probably some skirmish in the war which followed the treaty between the Athenians and Argives, which was brought about by Alcibiades, B. C. 420. It appears therefore that Aristogeiton and Hypatodorus lived in the latter part of the fifth and the early part of the fourth centuries B. C. Böckh attempts to shew that Aristogeiton was the son of Hypatodorus, but his arguments are not very convincing. [C.P.M]
- With Harmodius: one of the murderers of Hipparchus: Hdt. 5.55, Hdt. 6.109, Hdt. 6.123
- statue of: Paus. 1.8.5
- his grave: Paus. 1.29.15
- Paus. 10.10.4