With the 30 Tyrants installed in Athens by the Spartans, a rivalry quickly arises amongst the Tyrants between Kritias and Theramenes on how to run the city. In this video we will detail the terror of the 30's reign and the epic feud between these two leading politicians.

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Sources:
Thucydides 8.45 – 8.98
Aristotle. Constitution of Athens. 29 34
Xenophon Hellenica 2.2.10 – 2.4.43
Lysias. 12 “Against Eratosthenes”
Diodorus Siculus 13.36 14.4
Stem, R.,
2003 The Thirty at Athens in the Summer of 404, The Classical Association of Canada, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 18 – 34.
LeCaire, L.,
2013 Tyranny and terror: the failure of Athenian
democracy and the reign of the Thirty Tyrants, EWU Masters
Thesis Collection. 179. http://dc.ewu.edu/theses/
Krentz, P.,
2009 The Arginousai Affair, in R. B. Strassler, The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenica, Pantheon Books, London,
Krentz, P.,
2009 The Athenian Government and the Oligarchy of the Thirty, in R. B. Strassler, The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenica, Pantheon Books, London,

Chapters:
0:00 The Rise of the 30
1:23 The Reign of Terror
3:22 The List of 3,000
6:17 The Metics
7:17 The Good and Fair Kritias
12:00 Epilogue