Charicles ( grc-gre, Χαρικλῆς), son of Apollodorus, was an ancient
Athenian
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh List ...
politician. In 415 he investigated the
mutilation of the herms, and in 414/3 was made a general. In 411 Charicles became one of
the Four Hundred, and he fled Athens after it fell; he returned in 404 and was one of the
Thirty Tyrants
The Thirty Tyrants ( grc, οἱ τριάκοντα τύραννοι, ''hoi triákonta týrannoi'') were a pro-Spartan oligarchy installed in Athens after its defeat in the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC. Upon Lysander's request, the Thirty were ele ...
.
Along with
Critias
Critias (; grc-gre, Κριτίας, ''Kritias''; c. 460 – 403 BC) was an ancient Athenian political figure and author. Born in Athens, Critias was the son of Callaeschrus and a first cousin of Plato's mother Perictione. He became a leadin ...
, he unsuccessfully forbade
Socrates
Socrates (; ; –399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no te ...
from speaking to men under the age of thirty.
According to Aristotle he was one of the worst of the Thirty Tyrants.
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Thirty Tyrants
5th-century BC Athenians