Ephialtes is killed secretly by Aristodicus of Tanagra.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Aristodicus of Tanagra Origin: Boeotian, Age: adult
Victim (Person) :	Ephialtes Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	interpersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Pericles 10.7Plutarch Pericles 10.7 Paste CTS-Link
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	5 B.C.
Context :	ambush conspiracy
Motivation :	following orders political
Original Text :	Ἐφιάλτην μὲν οὖν φοβερὸν ὄντα τοῖς ὀλιγαρχικοῖς καὶ περὶ τὰς εὐθύνας καὶ διώξεις τῶν τὸν δῆμον ἀδικούντων ἀπαραίτητον ἐπιβουλεύσαντες οἱ ἐχθροὶ δι᾽ Ἀριστοδίκου τοῦ Ταναγρικοῦ κρυφαίως ἀνεῖλον, ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης εἴρηκεν.
Translation :	As for Ephialtes, who was a terror to the oligarchs and inexorable in exacting accounts from those who wronged the people, and in prosecuting them, his enemies laid plots against him, and had him slain secretly by Aristodicus of Tanagra, as Aristotle says.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
Remark :	motive: The enemies of Ephialtes hired Aristodicus of Tanagra to kill him.
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