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Critias, 460-403 BC, was a uncle of Plato, leading member of the Thirty Tyrants, and one of a virtually all violent. He was an associate of Socrates', the fact that did non endear Socrates to the Athenian public. He was noted inside his day for his tragedies, lament & prose works. From either his Sisyphus a fragment hwhen been preserved in which he declares faith in the gods to exist as however a clever device for holding the people under control; but as there are no 1 would dare to produce such a statement prior to an Athenian audience, the piece was probably designed exclusively for personal reading — unless a quote was dialogue for the notoriously impious Sisyphus himself.
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Biography.com: Critias Very brief biographical information. Critias Article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy by William Morison. Notes his life, relationship with Socrates, and various philosophical teachings. Critias: Fragment 9 A snippet of tragic poetry attributed to this classical Greek writer. Critias Biographical article from In2greece.com, focusing on Critias' role in the catastrophic Thirty Tyrants dictatorship of Athens. |
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