>>24620535
This, but the other figures
>>24617831 leaves out are Phaedrus and Eryximachus (yes, the Phaedrus and Eryximachus that appear in Plato's Protagoras, Phaedrus, and Symposium), who were both implicated in Alcibiades' blaspheming of the Mysteries (and knocking off the dicks of a bunch of Hermes statues lmao), and especially, moreso than Alcibiades, Critias and Charmides, Plato's relatives who were involved in the oligarchy of the Thirty about five years before Socrates' trial. Of two of Socrates' three accusers, Lycon had lost his son to the Thirty, and Anytus had originally been among the moderate oligarchs who were purged by the Thirty, and had joined the democrats in ousting the Thirty from the Piraeus. A set of amnesty laws after the Thirty were overthrown made it illegal to prosecute collaborators of the Thirty, unless they were involved in murdering citizens, so the charges of impiety and corrupting the youth were safe charges against a man who the Athenians suspected was not supportive of the democracy, and who may teach others to view it with contempt.
