Critias

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Crĭtĭas: ae, m., = Κριτίας,
I one of the thirty tyrants at Athens, Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 96; id. de Or. 2, 22, 93; Nep. Thras. 2, 7.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

Crĭtĭās,¹⁵ æ, m., Critias [un des trente tyrans d’Athènes] : Cic. de Or. 2, 93 || statuaire grec : Plin. 34, 49.

Latin > German (Georges)

Critiās, ae, m. (Κριτίας), einer der dreißig Tyrannen zu Athen, auch als Redner bekannt, Nep. Thras. 2, 7. Cic. de or. 2, 93.

Wikipedia EN

Critias (Greek: Κριτίας, Kritias; c. 460 – 403 BC) was an ancient Athenian political figure and author. Born in Athens, Critias was the son of Callaeschrus and a first cousin of Plato's mother Perictione. He became a leading and violent member of the Thirty Tyrants. He also was an associate of Socrates, a fact that did not endear Socrates to the Athenian public.

Critias was noted in his day for his tragedies, elegies and prose works. Some, like Sextus Empiricus, believe that Critias wrote the Sisyphus fragment; others, however, attribute it to Euripides. His only known play is Peirithous, of which only a single 42-line fragment survives (Sextus Empir. p. 403, 1). In addition, eight shorter quotations from unidentified plays have come down to us.

Critias appears as a character in Plato's dialogues Charmides and Protagoras, and, according to Diogenes Laërtius, was Plato's great-uncle.

The Critias character in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias is often identified as the son of Callaeschrus – but not by Plato. Given the old age of the Critias in these two dialogues, he may be the grandfather of the son of Callaeschrus.

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