Anytus

Anytus (/ˈænɪtəs/; Greek: Ἄνυτος, translit. Ánytos; probably before 451 – after 388 BCE[1]), son of Anthemion of the deme Euonymon, was a politician in Classical Athens. Anytus served as a general in the Peloponnesian War of 431 to 404 BCE, and later became a leading supporter of the democratic forces opposed to the Thirty Tyrants who ruled Athens from 404 to 403 BCE. He is best remembered as one of the prosecutors of the philosopher Socrates in 399 BCE; probably because of that role, Plato depicted Anytus as an interlocutor in the dialogue Meno.

  1. ^ Davies, Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 B.C.(APF) §1324, p. 40.