10 Facts About Thirty Tyrants

Thirty Tyrants were a pro-Spartan oligarchy installed in Athens after its defeat in the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC.

The Thirty Tyrants were concerned with the revision if not erasure of democratic laws inscribed on the wall next to the Stoa Basileios.

Consequently, the Thirty Tyrants reduced the rights of Athenian citizens in order to institute an oligarchical regime.

The Thirty Tyrants appointed a council of 500 to serve the judicial functions formerly belonging to all the citizens.

The Thirty Tyrants removed criminals as well as many ordinary citizens whom they considered "unfriendly" to the new regime for expressing support for the democracy.

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Thirty Tyrants's regime did not meet with much overt opposition, although many Athenians disliked the new form of government.

Historians have argued that the violence and brutality the Thirty Tyrants carried out in Athens was necessary to transition Athens from a democracy to an oligarchy.

Thirty Tyrants explains that following the revolution, fifty-one men became rulers of a new government, with a specific group of thirty in charge of the public affairs of Athens.

The rule of the Thirty Tyrants made the former democracy resemble a golden age in comparison.

In Plato's Apology, Socrates recounts an incident in which the Thirty Tyrants once ordered him to bring before them Leon of Salamis, a man known for his justice and upright character, for execution.