Charicles

{{Short description|5th-century BC Athenian politician, one of the Thirty Tyrants}}

Charicles ({{langx|grc|Χαρικλῆς}}), son of Apollodorus, was an ancient Athenian politician. In 415 BC he investigated the mutilation of the herms, and in 414/3 was made a general. In 411 Charicles became one of the Four Hundred, and he fled Athens after it fell; he returned in 404 and was one of the Thirty Tyrants.{{cite book |last=Nails|first=Debra |author-link=Debra Nails |title=The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-87220-564-2 |page=88}} Along with Critias, he unsuccessfully forbade Socrates from speaking to men under the age of thirty.{{cite encyclopaedia|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/|title=Socrates|encyclopaedia=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|first=Debra|last=Nails|author-link=Debra Nails|date=6 February 2018}} According to Aristotle he was one of the worst of the Thirty Tyrants.