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	Critias - LoveToKnow 1911
		CRITIAS, Athenian orator and poet, and one of the Thirty Tyrants.
		He was banished (probably in the democratic reaction of 407) and fled to Thessaly, where he stirred up the Penestae (the helots of Thessaly) against their masters, and endeavoured to establish a democracy.
		Returning to Athens he was made ephor by the oligarchical party; and he was the most cruel and unscrupulous of the Thirty Tyrants who in 404 were appointed by the Lacedaemonians.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Critias (206 words)

	Thirty Tyrants - Encyclopedia.com
		Thirty Western journalists were thrown out of the country on the eve of the election because their work permits were supposedly invalid...
		The male villain as domestic tyrant in Daniel Deronda: Victorian masculinities and the cultural context of George Eliot's novel.(Critical Essay)
		Thirty per cent of the money received from the sale of oil has to be paid to creditors, not used to buy food.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ThirtyTy.html (1105 words)

	TYRANT ALTERNATE GENIE SEARCH ENGINE, INC
		In the original Greek meaning "tyrant" carried no ethical censure; a tyrant was anyone who overturned the established government of a city-state, usually through the use of popular support, to establish himself as dictator, or the heir of such a person.
		Cypselus was the first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th_century_BC, and managed to bequeath his position to his son, Periander.
		Tyrants were generally installed by popular coups, and were often popular rulers, at least in the early part of their reigns.
	www.agseinc.com /tyrant (419 words)

	The story of Agyrion in the Sicily Island - www.agyrion.it
		Thirty Athenian ships had already been sent to Thrace because of the conflict with Perdiccas; but hearing of the revolt, they made an alliance with him after a siege in order to attack Potidaea, killing 300 and establishing a blockade.
		When each of the Thirty was supposed to condemn a resident alien in order to seize their property, Theramenes said it was not noble to go beyond the informers in injustice.
		The tyrant also had the mother of his wife Doris killed, because he suspected her of using magic to prevent his other wife from having a child.
	www.agyrion.it /uk.htm (19629 words)

	Thirty_Tyrants_(Roman)
		The Thirty Tyrants, or Thirty Pretenders (Latin: Tyranni Triginta) were a group of 32 people declared by the author of the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, writing under the name Trebellius Pollio, to have been pretenders to the throne of the Roman Empire in the time of the legitimate emperor Gallienus.
		Scholarly consensus is that the author artificially increased the number of his protagonists in conscious parallelism with the Thirty Tyrants of Sparta.
		The Thirty Tyrants listed by the Historia Augusta were: Cyriades, Postumus, Postumus Junior, Laelianus, Victorinus, Victorinus Junior, Marius, Ingenuus, Regalianus, Aureolus, Macrianus, Macrianus Junior, Quietus, Odaenathus, Herodes, Maeonius, Balista, Valens, Valens Superior, Piso, Aemilianus, Saturninus, Tetricus Senior, Tetricus Junior, Trebellianus, Herennianus, Timolaus, Celsus, Zenobia, Victoria, Titus, Censorinus.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Thirty_Tyrants_(Roman) (245 words)

	Tyrant biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A tyrant (from Greek τυραννος) is a usurper of rightful power, possessing absolute power and ruling by tyranny.
		In Athens, the title was first given to Pisistratus of Athens in 560 BC, followed by his sons, and with the subsequent growth of Athenian democracy, the title "Tyrant" took on its familiar censurious connotations.
		The Thirty Tyrants installed at defeated Athens in 404 BC by the Spartans were not tyrants in the usual sense.
	tyrant.biography.ms (438 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The Thirty Tyrants () were a pro-Spartan oligarchy installed in Athens after its defeat in the Peloponnesian War in April 404 BC.
		The Thirty Tyrants were overthrown by the exiled general Thrasybulus and his allies from Thebes in 403 BC.
		After the Thirty had been overthrown in a coup that killed Critias, Lysias accused Eratosthenes of the wrongful death of Lysias's brother, Polemarchus.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Thirty_Tyrants (348 words)

	Chapter Thirteens <i>to</i> Thorn in the Flesh of T by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		Thirty A man at thirty must be either a fool or a physician.
		Thirty Tyrants The thirty magistrates appointed by Sparta over Athens, at the termination of the Peloponnesian war.
		Thirty Years' War A series of wars between the Catholics and Protestants of Germany in the seventeenth century.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1185/24373/1.html (593 words)

	JURIST – Socrates
		Although the Thirty normally used their own gang of thugs for such duties, the oligarchy asked Socrates to arrest Leon of Salamis so that he might be executed and his assets appropriated.
		Socrates--and his icy logic--came to be seen as a dangerous and corrupting influence, a breeder of tyrants and enemy of the common man.
		A general amnesty issued in 403 meant that Socrates could not be prosecuted for any of his actions during or before the reign of the Thirty Tyrants.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /famoustrials/socrates.php (3517 words)

	Thirty Tyrants -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Thirty commissioners were appointed to the oligarchy, which had an extremist conservative core, led by Critias.
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		The Thirty Years' War was a series of conflicts that began early in the 17th century in the Holy Roman Empire and finally involved much of Europe.
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	Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Book 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Thirty governors of the state were appointed, who became absolute tyrants; for, at the very first, they organized for themselves a guard of three thousand men, though, after so much slaughter.
		The tyrants, thus freed from the dread of an avenger, wasted the miserable remains of the city with the sword and spoliation; and finding that their proceedings displeased Theramenes, one of their own body, they put him also to death to strike terror into the rest.
		Peace was restored by these means; but, after an interval of some days, the tyrants, enraged at the recal of the exiles not less than at their own expulsion (as if liberty to others was slavery to themselves), suddenly resumed hostilities against Athens.
	www.forumromanum.org /literature/justin/english/trans5.html (3333 words)

	Thirty Tyrants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Thirty Tyrants were a pro-Spartan oligarchy installed in Athens after Athens' defeat in the Peloponnesian War in April 404 BC.
		The Thirty severely reduced the number of rights of Athenian citizens.
		The Thirty Tyrants were overthrown by Thrasybulus, with help from Thebes, the following year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thirty_Tyrants (129 words)

	Thirty Tyrants (Roman) - Definition, explanation
		The Thirty Tyrants, or Thirty Pretenders (Latin: Tyranni Triginta) were a group of 32 people declared by the author of the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, writing under the name Trebellius Pollio, to have been pretenders to the throne of the Roman Empire in the time of the legitimate emperor Gallienus.
		Scholarly consensus is that the author artificially increased the number of his protagonists in conscious parallelism with the Thirty Tyrants of Sparta.
		The Thirty Tyrants listed by the Historia Augusta were: Cyriades, Postumus, Postumus Junior, Laelianus, Victorinus, Victorinus Junior, Marius, Ingenuus, Regalianus, Aureolus, Macrianus, Macrianus Junior, Quietus, Odaenathus, Herodes, Maeonius, Balista, Valens, Valens Superior, Piso, Aemilianus, Saturninus, Tetricus Senior, Tetricus Junior, Trebellianus, Herennianus, Timolaus, Celsus, Zenobia, Victoria, Titus, Censorinus.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/th/thirty_tyrants__roman_.php (306 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Thirty Tyrants. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The thirty magistrates appointed by Sparta over Athens, at the termination of the Peloponnesian war.
		B.C. The Thirty Tyrants of the Roman empire.
		The number thirty must be taken with great latitude, as only nineteen are given, and their resemblance to the thirty tyrants of Athens is extremely fanciful.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/16426.html (124 words)

	William Smith : A Smaller History of [Ancient] Greece - Thiry Tyrants, Death of Socrates
		The Thiry Tyrants, and the death of Socrates, B.C. HE FALL of Athens brought back a host of exiles, all of them the enemies of her democratical constitution.
		The Thebans and Corinthians themselves were beginning to sympathise with Athens, and to regard the Thirty as mere instruments for supporting the Spartan dominion; whilst Sparta in her turn looked upon them as the tools of Lysander's ambition.
		Some of the Thirty were re-elected into this body; but the more violent colleagues of Critias were deposed and retired for safety to Eleusis.
	www.ellopos.net /elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-greece/history-of-ancient-greece-14-socrates.asp (2623 words)

	Hieroglyphics to Holy Twain * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last ...
		Having lost the war to the Spartans, the citizens of Athens elected thirty men to lead the new post-war government; these men became known as the Thirty Tyrants; the short lived government they comprised was an oligarchy.
		One of the sons of the tyrant, Pisistratus (Peisistratos), and the brother of Hipparkhus (Hipparchus).
		Hippokrates of Gela; A tyrant of the city of Gela on the island of Sicily from 498-491 BCE.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/_h1003.html (3029 words)

	The Trial of Socrates
		When the Thirty Tyrants took power, they murdered or drove out of the city all who were of the democratic party.
		He, who had been one of the original Thirty Tyrants, was executed without a trial when he began to criticize the Thirty Tyrants for their brutality.
		The dictatorship of the thirty Tyrants was the dictatorship of the wealthy landed aristocracy to which Plato and Critias belonged.
	www.geneseo.edu /~harrison/humn1_html/trial.html (4988 words)

	Search Results for thirty - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The sermons of Jan Hus, a scholar at the university, begun in 1402 at the now-restored Bethlehem Chapel and carrying forward the criticisms of the...
		He was noted for his administrative reforms and for his diplomacy and military command during the Thirty...
		Virginia married Leonard Woolf in 1912 at the age of thirty.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=thirty&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (520 words)

	Tyranny and the Triumph of Democracy, by Dylan Craig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A tyrant was simply someone who participated in or stood at the forefront of an oligarchic form of government; one who had achieved power and refused to surrender it.
		The thirty oligarchs who were put in control of Athens soon came to be known as the Thirty Tyrants, however, when their rule devolved into a witch-hunt against their erstwhile enemies.
		Athenians who had been children during the time of the Thirty might see Athens in the grip of a single, powerful man again with the appearance of Philip of Macedon, but many more may have gone to their deaths thinking that Athens would never again be ruled by tyrants.
	www.eyeballkid.co.za /tyranny.html (2339 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Thirty Tyrants.
		The thirty magistrates appointed by Sparta over Athens, at the termination of the Peloponnesian war.
		B.C. The Thirty Tyrants of the Roman empire.
		The number thirty must be taken with great latitude, as only nineteen are given, and their resemblance to the thirty tyrants of Athens is extremely fanciful.
	www.bartleby.com /81/16426.html (124 words)

	Greek History
		Their political structure was unstable because the kings often acted like tyrants to the citizens.
		The Thirty Tyrants, a group of aristocratic Spartans, took control of Athens.
		In 399 BC, Socrates, the philosopher, was tried and executed for his objection to the Thirty Tyrants.
	library.thinkquest.org /10805/history-g.html (816 words)

	Critias, Greece, ancient history
		At the end of the Peloponnesian war in 404 BC Critias was called back when the Spartans demanded it in the peace negotiations after they had defeated Athens.
		On his return he was elected to the dictatorial, Sparta friendly government that consisted of 30 tyrants.
		In 403 the 30 tyrants were toppled, and ironically, Critias did not die then, but in a common street fight in Pireus.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/history/ancient/critias.htm (292 words)

	I. F. Stone Interviewed aboout the Trial of Socrates
		When the Thirty Tyrants took power, they murdered or drove out of the city all who were of the democratic party.
		He, who had been one of the original Thirty Tyrants, was executed without a trial when he began to criticize the Thirty Tyrants for their brutality.
		The dictatorship of the thirty Tyrants was the dictatorship of the wealthy landed aristocracy to which Plato and Critias belonged.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/ifstoneinterview.html (4748 words)

	AllRefer.com - Thirty Tyrants (Ancient History, Greece) - Encyclopedia
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		B.C. It was created by Lysander under Spartan auspices after the Peloponnesian War.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Thirty Tyrants
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	Plato's Apology
		The first step taken by the Thirty, with the tacit approval of the Athenian people, was to rid Athens of those politicians whose bad advice had contributed to Athens' downfall.
		Critias, the leader of the Thirty, and Charmides, who was his assistant during the rule of the Thirty, were known to have been at one time or another associates of Socrates.
		The answer is that a commission had undertaken the revision and codification of the laws, which originally had been the task of the Thirty, and, until they finished their work in 400, the courts were in a state of confusion.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/studyguide/apology.htm (3288 words)

	Lysias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When the Thirty Tyrants seized power, Lysias' brother was put to death and Lysias himself fled for his life to Megara.
		Lysias' putting on trial one of the Thirty Tyrants called Eratosthenes proved to be a turning point in his life.
		Thirty-five of his speeches have come down to us whole or in part, and of these thirty are forensic speeches written (with the exception of the 'Versus Eratosthenes') to defend a client.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/lysias.htm (333 words)

	Chapter Think <i>to</i> Thomas and Fair Ellinor of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Thirty Tyrants of Rome (The), a fanciful name, applied by Trebellius Pollio to a set of adventurers who tried to make themselves masters of Rome at sundry times between A.D. 260 and 267.
		The number was not thirty, and the analogy between them and “The Thirty Tyrants of Athens”; is scarcely perceptible.
		The Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta is called “The Thirty Years’ War” (B.C. Thisbe, a beautiful Babylonian maid, beloved by Pyramus, her next-door neighbour.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1130/15036/2.html (550 words)

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