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The key here is to find out what the relation is between his "corrupted young" (ie. his students) and the thirty tyrants.

• jbooth 13y ago
  Do you have any citations at all or is this just a theory of yours? (not being hostile, would love to see a citation as this is a new theory to me)
  • waps 13y ago
    E.g. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/socratesaccount.html http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/socra... Quote: The standing of Socrates among his fellow citizens suffered mightily during two periods in which Athenian democracy was temporarily overthrown, one four-month period in 411-410 and another slightly longer period in 404-403. *The prime movers in both of the anti-democratic movements were former pupils of Socrates, Alcibiades and Critias*. Athenians undoubtedly considered the teachings of Socrates--especially his expressions of disdain for the established constitution--partially responsible for the resulting death and suffering. Alcibiades, perhaps Socrates' favorite Athenian politician, masterminded the first overthrow. (Alcibiades had other strikes against him: four years earlier, Alcibiades had fled to Sparta to avoid facing trial for mutilating religious pillars--statues of Hermes--and while in Sparta had proposed to that state's leaders that he help them defeat Athens.) Critias, first among an oligarchy known as the "Thirty Tyrants," led the second bloody revolt against the restored Athenian democracy in 404. The revolt sent many of Athen's leading democratic citizens (including Anytus, later the driving force behind the prosecution of Socrates) into exile, where they organized a resistance movement.