The 30 Tyrants | Resistance to the 30

As the tyranny of the 30 goes unchecked, the regime continues to reshape the government on the Spartan model. However this increasing tyranny is met by growing discontent for the regime as resistance forms under the banner of the exile Thrasybulus. In this video we follow this resistance effort to overthrow the 30 in Athens and the Tyrants' escalating brutality to keep a hold on power.

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Music done by the talented Leandros

Further reading:

Diodorus Siculus 14.32 – 14.33

Aristotle. Athenian Constitution 37

Aristotle. Pol. 5.1302a

Lysias 12.52 – 12.58

Xenophon 2.4.1 – 2.4.24

Bugh, G. R.,

1988 The Year of the Thirty Tyrants in Bugh G. R. The Horsemen of Athens, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, pg. 120 – 153.

Krentz, D.,

2009 The Athenian Government and the Oligarchy of the Thirty, in R. B. Strassler, The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenica, Pantheon Books, London, pg. 322 – 330.

LeClaire, L. D.,

2013 Tyranny and terror: the failure of Athenian democracy and the reign of the Thirty Tyrants, Eastern Washington University Master Thesis Collection, Cheney W.A.

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Key words:

Thirty, Tyrants, Athens, Mounichia, Phyle, Kritias, Thrasybulus, Battle, Peloponnesian War, Sparta, Theramenes, Oligarchy, Democracy, Ancient, Greek, Greece, History, Classical, Athenian