... is delivered and perhaps written by Epikhares, who asserts that Theokrines, as a debtor to the state, is disfranchised and is therefore not entitled to prosecute other men. The two speeches Against Aristogeiton likewise allege that Aristogeiton is disfranchised as a state-debtor, and accuse...

...This chapter provides an analytical framework for interpreting the history of tyrannicide in ancient Greece. It first explores the Athenians’ idealization of Harmodius and Aristogeiton—two Athenian tyrannicides—during the late archaic and early classical periods. Next, it analyzes the subsequent...

...This chapter contributes to the literature on violence against women in classical Athens, by considering the case of Zobia, a metic woman who experienced violence at the hands of a man named Aristogeiton according to Demosthenes’ Against Aristogeiton (25.56-8). Inspired...

... the concept of the “tyrant” in order to construct a conceptual catwalk between these two contexts. The very project of comparison, then, helps bring to the surface some of the intricacies of the lives of concepts in particular places. Harmodius and Aristogeiton Jing Ke Qin Shihuangdi tyrannicide Critius...

... the question of Thucydides's approach to history in relation to that of his identity as an Athenian, with particular emphasis on his claim that he is a historian committed first and foremost to a “search for the truth.” It then discusses Thucydides's account of Aristogeiton and Harmodius and their plot against...