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The Spartan-imposed postwar dictatorship in Athens, linked in the lecture to wealthy students of Socrates.
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Thirty Tyrants
The Spartan-imposed postwar dictatorship in Athens, linked in the lecture to wealthy students of Socrates.
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Jiang distinguishes Socrates from the Thirty Tyrants: Socrates refused to participate in the tyranny, but many tyrants came from wealthy families and had been his students.
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The Thirty Tyrants are described as killing at least five percent of the Athenian population and stealing wealth before the democracy was restored.
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"...did not okay instead Athens imposed a dictatorship called the 30 tyrants and the 30 tyrants came from the wealthiest uh families of Athens..."
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"...reinstalled their democracy. So when the tyranny was overthrown, the 30 tyrants were exiled, but most people were given clemency. They were forgiven if..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central turn: Socrates attacks democracy by exposing the weakness of language and reason, then Plato rescues Socrates by turning the cave into a martyr story, a Christian universe,...
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