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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 955 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARMODIUS , a handsome Athenian youth, and the intimate friend of Aristogeiton. See also:

Hipparchus, the younger See also:brother of the See also:tyrant Hippias, endeavoured to supplant Aristogeiton in the See also:good See also:graces of Harmodius, but, failing in the See also:attempt, revenged himself by putting a public affront on Harmodius's See also:sister at a See also:solemn festival. Thereupon the two See also:friends conspired with a few others to See also:murder both the tyrants during the armed procession at the Panathenaic festival (514 B.C.), when the See also:people were allowed to carry arms (this See also:licence is denied by See also:Aristotle in See also:Ath. Pol.). Seeing one of their accomplices speaking to Hippias, and imagining that they were being betrayed, they prematurely attacked and slew Hipparchus alone. Harmodius was cut down on the spot by the See also:guards, and Aristogeiton was soon captured and tortured to See also:death. When Hippias was expelled (510), Harmodius and Aristogeiton became the most popular of Athenian heroes; their descendants were exempted from public burdens, and had the right of public entertainment in the See also:Prytaneum, and their names were celebrated in popular songs and scolia (after-See also:dinner songs) as the deliverers of See also:Athens. One of these songs, attributed to a certain See also:Callistratus, is preserved in See also:Athenaeus (p. 695). Their statues by See also:Antenor in the See also:agora were carried off by See also:Xerxes and replaced by new ones by See also:Critius and Nesiotes. See also:Alexander the See also:Great afterwards sent back the originals to Athens. It is not agreed which of these was the See also:original of the See also:marble tyrannicide See also:group in the museum at See also:Naples, for which see See also:article See also:GREEK See also:ART, Pl.

I. fig. 50. See See also:

Kopp in Neue Jahrb. f. klass. Altert. (1902), p. 609.

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