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Critias
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Critias (; , Kritias; – 403 BC) was an ancient Athenian poet, philosopher and political leader. He is known today for being a student of Socrates, a writer of some regard, and for becoming the leader of the Thirty Tyrants, who ruled Athens for several months after the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War in 404/403.
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Critias (460 BCE–403 BCE) was a male citizen of Classical Athens who worked as a politician, writer, philosopher, and poet. He was a member of the Thirty Tyrants and is associated with the movements of sophism and Pre-Socratic philosophy. His field of work was philosophy, and he wrote in Ancient Greek. He was born in Classical Athens and died in Munichia, Classical Athens.
Critias was a relative of Cleitus the Black and Lanike. His literary output includes the work *Carminum aliorumque ingenii monumentorum quae supersunt*. He is described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.
Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Last.fm, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Carminum aliorumque ingenii monumentorum quae supersunt
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 11
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Testimonia
· 1999
- Oxford Classical Texts: Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Selecta
· 1998
- Σίσυφος
· 1998
- Πειρίθους
· 1998
- Fragments
· 1999
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Key facts
- Person.name
- Critias
- Person.birth_date
- 460 BC
- Person.birth_place
- Athens
- Person.death_date
- 403 BC (aged 55–56)
- Person.death_place
- Piraeus
- Person.known_for
- Leading member of the Thirty Tyrants
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Classical Athens
- Place of birth
- Classical Athens
- Place of death
- Classical Athens
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Movement
- Pre-Socratic philosophy
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- member of
- Thirty Tyrants
- date of birth
- 0460-00-00
- date of death
- 0403-00-00
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
- name in native language
- Κριτίας
- relative
- Lanike
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Ancestry
- Early life
- Student of Socrates
- Mutilation of the Hermes
- The Four Hundred
- Tyranny of the Thirty
- Legacy
- In popular culture
- See also
- Citations
- General references
- External links
Critias (; , Kritias; – 403 BC) was an ancient Athenian poet, philosopher and political leader. He is known today for being a student of Socrates, a writer of some regard, and for becoming the leader of the Thirty Tyrants, who ruled Athens for several months after the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War in 404/403.
==Ancestry== alt=Plato's relatives in the Socratic dialogs|thumb|300px|Plato's relatives in the Socratic dialogues
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