Crito of Alopece

Crito grew up in the Athenian deme of Alopece alongside Socrates and was of roughly the same age as the philosopher,[1] placing his year of birth around 469 BC.

[2] Plato's Euthydemus and Xenophon's Memorabilia both present him as a wealthy businessman[3] who made his money from agriculture,[4][5] which scholars speculate was conducted in Alopece itself.

[2] He seems to have married a woman with impressive aristocratic pedigree[6] and had at least two sons,[7] including the elder Critobulus (Κριτόβουλος, Kritóboulos), one of Socrates' young followers, and the younger Archestratus (Άρχέστρατος, Archéstratos),[2] later a successful general.

Modern scholars generally treat Diogenes' account as apocryphal, most likely a conflation with another author, since the genre of Socratic literature did not develop until well after Crito's period of flourishing and these sons appear nowhere in the contemporaneous historical record.

In the Apology and Phaedo, Plato portrays Crito as present at the trial and execution of Socrates, attending to the familial and practical matters having to do with the philosopher's death.