Aristogeiton (Ancient Greek:Ἀριστογείτων) was a statuary and a native ofThebes. In conjunction withHypatodorus, he was the maker of some statues of the heroes of theArgive and Theban tradition, which the Argives had made to commemorate a victory gained by themselves and theAthenians over theSpartans atOenoe inArgolis, and dedicated in the temple ofApollo atDelphi.[1]
The names of these two artists occur together likewise on the pedestal of a statue found at Delphi, which had been erected in honor of a citizen ofOrchomenus, who had been a victor probably in thePythian games.[2] We learn from this inscription that they were both Thebans.Pliny the Elder says that Hypatodorus lived about the 102ndOlympiad, or roughly the early 4th century BCE.[3] The above-mentioned inscription was doubtless earlier than the 104th Olympiad, when Orchomenos was destroyed by the Thebans.
The battle mentioned byPausanias was probably some skirmish in the war which followed the treaty between the Athenians and Argives, which was brought about byAlcibiades in 420 BCE. It appears therefore that Aristogeiton and Hypatodorus lived in the latter part of the fifth and the early part of the fourth centuries BCE. German classicistAugust Böckh attempted to show that Aristogeiton was in fact the son of Hypatodorus, but later scholars did not find his arguments convincing.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870)."Aristogeiton". InSmith, William (ed.).Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 306.