Anytos

Anytos , in Greek old Ἄνυτος / Ánytos (fifth century BC) is the chief of the indicters in the lawsuit against Socrate.

This Athenian rich person , enriched by his workshop by tannery, belongs to the democratic party, of which it is one of the leaders. With Thrasybule, it takes an active part in the fall of the oligarchical government of the Thirty by carrying out the opening of the Pirée. It also shows a savage adversary of the Sophiste S.

In 399 av. J. - C., it launches with the Lycon speaker and the poet Mélétos the charge against the Socrate philosopher. Its counts of indictment were the following:

not to accept the gods of the quoted and to introduce new divinities;
to corrupt youth.

Anytos also claims that the philosopher is the intellectual guide of Critias, one of the wildest tyrants. According to Xénophon, Socrate had publicly reproached Anytos for wanting that his/her son succeeds to him the businesses, and to have educated it for this purpose. It is thus by personal rancour that Anytos would have shown Socrate.

Socrat is recognized guilty, then condemned to drink the conium. After the death of the philosopher, crowd turns itself against her indicters and Anytos is constrained to flee Athens.

Sources

(II, 13).
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Xénophon, Apology for Socrate (30-32).

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