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Now Critias’s chief rival and the one effective moderate of the council was dead. Critias had established his…

Critias now turned his attention from the disreputable to the reputable. He wanted to purge the city of…

With his followers now one thousand strong, Thrasybulus stole into Piraeus by night, where many more enemies of the oligarchy…

Among these targets of the Thirty was the family of Cephalus, who is the host of the gathering portrayed in Plato’s…

The one outspoken voice for moderation among the Thirty, Theramenes, opposed the policy of accusing law-abiding…

One law the Thirty passed prohibited “teaching the art of words.” This initiative was presumably directed against the…

After they had gotten rid of undesirables, the Thirty Tyrants began to arrest respectable citizens, and…