Anytus
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Anytus (; ; probably before 451 – after 388 BCE), son of Anthemion of the deme Euonymon, was a politician in Classical Athens. Anytus served as a general in the Peloponnesian War of 431 to 404 BCE, and later became a leading supporter of the democratic forces opposed to the Thirty Tyrants who ruled Athens from 404 to 403 BCE. He is best remembered as one of the prosecutors of the philosopher Socrates in 399 BCE; probably because of that role, Plato depicted Anytus as an interlocutor in the dialogue Meno.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Classical Athens
- Place of birth
- Euonymon
- Occupation
- rhetorician
- Position held
- strategos
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Native language
- Ancient Greek
- Military rank
- strategos
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- member of the deme
- Euonymon
- date of birth
- 0451-00-00
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- date of death
- 0388-00-00
- name in native language
- Ἄνυτος
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- Tyranny of the Thirty
- Trial of Socrates
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Anytus (; ; probably before 451 – after 388 BCE), son of Anthemion of the deme Euonymon, was a politician in Classical Athens. Anytus served as a general in the Peloponnesian War of 431 to 404 BCE, and later became a leading supporter of the democratic forces opposed to the Thirty Tyrants who ruled Athens from 404 to 403 BCE. He is best remembered as one of the prosecutors of the philosopher Socrates in 399 BCE; probably because of that role, Plato depicted Anytus as an interlocutor in the dialogue Meno.
== Ancestry == Anytus appears to have been one of the nouveaux riche of Athens, that is, of the commercial class and not one of the landed aristocracy that had ruled the city since time immemorial. His father is believed to be the Anthemion, son of Diphilus, that dedicated a statue on the Acropolis in thanks for his rise to class of “knight”. The Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia had this attribution:In the Acropolis there is a votive offering, a statue of Diphilus, bearing this inscription:
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