drinking song "Skolion of Harmodius and Aristogeiton"

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The drinking song "Skolion of Harmodius and Aristogeiton" is an ancient Greek sympotic song celebrating the Athenian tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton as champions of freedom and democracy.

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instanceOf ancient Greek song
drinking song
skolion
sympotic song
associatedWithDeity Athena NERFINISHED
associatedWithInstitution Athenian democracy NERFINISHED
associatedWithPlace Athens NERFINISHED
associatedWithPractice communal singing at banquets
celebrates Aristogeiton NERFINISHED
Harmodius NERFINISHED
commemorates overthrow of the Peisistratid tyranny
commemoratesEvent assassination of Hipparchus
culturalContext Classical Athens NERFINISHED
culturalRole symbol of civic freedom in Athens
evaluatesHarmodiusAndAristogeitonAs champions of freedom
defenders of democracy
genre drinking song
political song
hasAudience Athenian symposiasts
hasLanguage Ancient Greek
hasMetricalForm Greek lyric meter
hasRefrain praise of Harmodius and Aristogeiton
hasSubject Athenian democracy NERFINISHED
freedom
political liberation
tyrant-slayers NERFINISHED
hasTheme heroization of citizens
resistance to tyranny
influenced later political songs in Greek tradition
laterMedium written text
literaryForm lyric poetry
literaryTradition Greek lyric poetry
mentions Harmodius and Aristogeiton NERFINISHED
originalMedium oral performance
performedAt symposium
politicalFunction celebration of isonomia
praise of tyrannicide
preservedIn later literary quotations
timePeriod Classical antiquity
transmittedAs fragmentary text
usedAs patriotic song in Athens

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Harmodius commemoratedBy drinking song "Skolion of Harmodius and Aristogeiton"