Critias

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Critias was a controversial figure who is best known for his association with the Thirty Tyrants, a group of Athenian aristocrats who briefly seized power in Athens after its defeat in the Peloponnesian War. Critias was accused of being a tyrant and a murderer, and his reputation as a Sophist suffered as a result.