The Thirty Tyrants and the Athenians

Rayal: The Thirty Tyrants wanted to solidify their regime by making prominent Athenian citizens become complicit in their own wrongdoing. He says they handed out a list of people to be murdered, including Socrates; he put the name in his pocket and went home. "Socrates saw ... it is better to be bent and even broken in body than it is to be crooked in your soul," Rayal writes.