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Charicles

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Charicles(Greek:Χαρικλῆς), son of Apollodorus, was an ancientAthenianpolitician. In 415 BC he investigated themutilation of the herms,and in 414/3 was made a general. In 411 Charicles became one ofthe Four Hundred,and he fled Athens after it fell; he returned in 404 and was one of theThirty Tyrants.[1]Along withCritias,he unsuccessfully forbadeSocratesfrom speaking to men under the age of thirty.[2]According to Aristotle he was one of the worst of the Thirty Tyrants.[1]

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  1. ^abNails, Debra(2000).The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics.Princeton University Press. p. 88.ISBN978-0-87220-564-2.
  2. ^Nails, Debra(6 February 2018)."Socrates".Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.