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also: Critias

Athenian aristocrat, orator, and writer (c. 460-403 BC), leader of the Thirty Tyrants. Cicero (Brutus 29) groups him with Alcibiades and Theramenes as exemplars of the grand, dense style known from Thucydides.

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On the Orator rhetoric · 1 mention
Brutus rhetoric · 1 mention

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