Thrasybulus

In 407 BC, Lysander was appointed as navarch, commander of the Spartan fleet. Gathering a fleet as he went, he sailed west across the Aegean from Sparta and eventually reached Ephesus, where he established his base, with 70 triremes, which he increased to 90 through shipbuilding efforts at Ephesus. In Ephesus, he established diplomatic relations with Cyrus, a Persian prince. Lysander built a personal friendship with Cyrus, and the prince agreed to provide funds out of his own purse to increase the pay of Spartan rowers to 4 obols a day from ...

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It has been conjectured that the Elizabethan use of "mechanical" (as in e.g. Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream) is a translation of banausos. This is certainly possible — the earliest recorded usage (OED s.v.) is from John Lyly, who knew more Greek than was good for his style. Banausos (or rather βαναυσικός – banausikos) has also been adapted into English, as the rare word banausic; both as a term of abuse, and to represent Greek usage. "Banausic" is not found before 1845, with the Vic ...

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Spartan law forbade him from serving a second term so he was nominally second in command, but the de facto Spartan leader, at the Battle of Aegospotami in which the Athenian fleet was destroyed (405 BC). This action effectively starved Athens into surrender by shutting the grain route through the Hellespont. Lysander then joined the Spartan kings, Agis and Pausanias, in Attica. When Athens succumbed after the siege, Lysander installed a government of thirty, later known as the Thirty Tyrants (404). The decarchies which he had set up in many of Athens former allies were in many cases reinforced by ...

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Most of the major ancient chroniclers of these events were inclined to assign credit for the dramatic Athenian victories of 411 BC to Alcibiades. A few, however, such as Cornelius Nepos, pointed to the decisive role that was played in these battles by Thrasybulus. More recent historians, such as Donald Kagan, have tended to support this analysis, pointing to the role that Thrasybulus played in crafting Athenian strategy in all these battles, and specifically to the decisive action he took at Cyzicus, which saved Alcibiades's force from being swamped, and turned a potential Athenian defeat into a stunning vic ...

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In the revived democracy established in 403 BC, Thrasybulus became a major and prestigious leader. He led a moderate faction, but advocated action against Sparta, particularly in the form of joining the alliance of Argos, Corinth, and Thebes. As Athens began to regain its fleet in the course of the Corinthian War, he supported rebuilding the city's naval strength and imperial status[11] In 389 BC, Thrasybulus led a force of triremes to levy tribute from cities around the Aegean and support Rho ...

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In 404 BC, following a defeat at the Battle of Aegospotamai, Athens was forced to surrender, ending the Peloponnesian War. In the wake of this surrender, the Spartan navarch Lysander imposed a strict oligarchich government on Athens, which came to be known as the Thirty Tyrants. This government executed a number of citizens and deprived all but a few of their rights, particulary after the execution of the moderate oligarch Theramenes. Fearing for their lives, numerous Athenians fled to T ...

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In the months following these events, Thrasybulus commanded the Athenian fleet in several major engagements. At the Battle of Cynossema, he commanded one wing of the fleet and prevented Athenian defeat by extending his flank to prevent encirclement; the battle ended in Athenian victory[5]. Shortly afterwards Thrasybulus again commanded a wing of the Athenian fleet at Abydos, another Athenian victorySee also:

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