Establishment of the Four Hundred
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establishment of the Four Hundred · setting up of the Four Hundred
in the texts
Rhetoric
The establishment of the oligarchic council of Four Hundred at Athens, which Sophocles, questioned by Pisander, admitted having approved.
For instance, Sophocles being asked by Pisander whether he, like the rest of the Committee of Ten, had approved the setting up of the Four Hundred, he admitted it.
Concerning the Team of Horses
The oligarchic coup that overthrew the Athenian democracy and established the rule of the Four Hundred, which first moved against Alcibiades the elder.
Now the persons who first plotted against the democracy and established the Four Hundred, inasmuch as my father, although he was repeatedly invited to join them would not do so, seeing that he was a vigorous opponent of their activities and a loyal supporter of the people, judged that they were powerless to upset the established order until he was removed out of their way.
for they all know that the same men were responsible for the destruction of the democracy and for my father’s exile;