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Critias
Athenian politician (c. 460 – 403 BC)
- Fame55.3
- Momentum1.8
- Politicians rank#173
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Lived -460–-403, aged 57
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Updated 2026-06-09
Socrates' student who turned mass murderer. After Athens lost the Peloponnesian War, Critias led the Thirty Tyrants in a brief, blood-soaked reign that made him one of history's clearest arguments against giving philosophers power.
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Born around 460 BC into aristocratic Athens, Critias moved in intellectual circles as a poet and philosopher, studying under Socrates. When Athens fell to Sparta in 404 BC, he seized his moment: installed as leader of the Thirty Tyrants, an oligarchic puppet government. His rule lasted only months, but the body count was high—executions, expropriations, terror. He died in 403 BC, killed in battle when democrats stormed back to reclaim the city. The regime collapsed with him.
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