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Jacob Howland on Glaucon's Fate & Plato's Republic

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Critius and the 30 Tyrants

Critius was the head of the 30 tyrants who literally, those just might not know this well very briefly. They ruled for about eight months and they proceeded to murder 1500 of their fellow citizens. Critius is constantly kind of stealing ideas from Socrates and so forth. But he thinks of himself as a philosopher. He's a very vacuous idea of science. And that's what he did attempted to do in leading the30 tyrants. The hypothesis that Glaukhan might have joined them kind of brings front and center his significance.

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