In Late Fifth-century Athens, The Sophist Kriti... Page

His most famous intellectual contribution is an argument found in the play Sisyphus , which suggests that the gods are a clever human invention designed by early lawmakers to keep people in check through fear.

He was the most violent leader of the Thirty Tyrants , the pro-Spartan oligarchy that ruled Athens after its defeat in the Peloponnesian War. In late fifth-century Athens, the sophist Kriti...

While some scholars question his "professional" status as a sophist, he is typically grouped with them due to his rationalism and radical challenges to traditional values. His most famous intellectual contribution is an argument

Critias was a complex figure in the "Sophistic Enlightenment" of late 5th-century Athens. Unlike itinerant sophists like Protagoras or Gorgias, he was a native Athenian and a relative of Plato. In late fifth-century Athens, the sophist Kriti...