Editing Database: Critias

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[[Critias]] was an [[Athens|Athenian]] aristocrat of the 5th century BCE, and a prominent leader of the oligarchic faction during the [[Peloponnesian War]]. Probably a member of the government of the {{Wiki|Athenian coup of 411 BC|Four Hundred}}, he was later one of the [[Thirty Tyrants|30 Tyrants]] who took power in the aftermath of Athens’ {{Wiki|Battle of Aegospotami|defeat}} at {{Wiki|Aegospotami}}. He seemed to play a prominent role in the condemnation of his more moderate colleague [[Theramenes]], who opposed the violence perpetrated by the government under the protection of [[Sparta]]. In contrast to his colleague, he appears to have been one of the more radical members of the Tyrants, and to have personally plotted some of its most reprehensible measures: murders, confiscations, banishments, as well as the mass execution of the population of [[Eleusis]]. In May of 403 B.C.E., he was killed at the [[Battle of Munychia]] by the returning democratic forces of [[Thrasybulus]]. Also depicted as a prolific and appreciated author of poetry, Critias was renowned for being one of the most famous disciples of [[Socrates]]. As a result, critics tend to explain this association with the Tyrants as one of the main factors behind the philosopher’s condemnation to death in 399 B.C.
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