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Critias
Athenian politician (c. 460 - 403 BC) · Politicians · Lived 460 BC to 403 BC · aged 57
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Something wrong?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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