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| (c.460–403 BC)
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| Athenian orator and politician, a pupil of Socrates. In 411 BC he took part in the oligarchical revolution that set up the government of Four Hundred. Exiled in 406 BC, he returned two years later, and as a strong supporter of Sparta became one of the Thirty Tyrants set up by the Spartans after their defeat of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC). He had a high reputation as an orator, and wrote poetry and tragedies. |
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