Once the long walls were destroyed the Athenian assembly was asked to choose thirty men to rewrite their laws. The names of the chosen were Polychares, Kritias, Melobios, Hippolochos, Eucleides, Hieron, Mnesilochos, Chremon, Theramenes, Aresias, Diokles, Phaedrias, Chaireleos, Anaitios, Peison, Sophocles, Eratosthenes, Charicles, Onomacles, Theognis, Aeschines, Theogenes, Cleomedes, Erasistratos, Pheidon, Dracontides, Eumathes, Aristoteles, Hippomachos, and Mnesitheides. Of these men, twenty-five are obscure, three are known only by anecdote, and two were major players in the drama that would follow.
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