Abstract
The profanation of the Mysteries and the mutilation of the Herms in 415 BC were two prominent events that involved impiety (asebeia). We have knowledge of these events mostly through the accounts of Thucydides and Plutarch, and also through the speeches of Andocides (And. 1) and [Lysias] ([Lys.] 6). This paper aims to analyse how these events are narrated in And. 1 through three complaints presented by the orator: Andromachus, Lydo and Diokleides. The complaints were used to determine the participation of citizens and the focus of this paper will be on Andocides and Alcibiades. In order to do this, this paper will be divided in two parts: the first is a brief description of the events of 415 BC and the significance of both the Herms and the Eleusinian Mysteries to the Athenian democracy; the second examines the rhetorical use of these events in And. 1.
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