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	Thrasybulus - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thrasybulus was again in command of a squadron of the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Cyzicus, a stunning Athenian victory.
		Thrasybulus seems to have advocated a more radically democratic policy than the populace was willing to accept at the time; he called for reinstating pay for political service, and sought to extend citizenship to all the metics and foreigners who had fought alongside him against the Thirty.
		Thrasybulus largely faded from view for several years as Conon led the Athenian fleet to a series of victories, but in 392 BC Conon was imprisoned by the Persian satrap Tiribazus while attending a peace conference at Sardis; although released, he died in Cyprus without returning to Athens.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Thrasybulus (2623 words)

	Thrasybulus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thrasybulus was either removed from command on the spot by Alcibiades or; not reelected at the end of his term; either way, he was out of office from then until the end of the war.
		Thrasybulus seems to have advocated a more radically democratic policy than the populace was willing to accept at the time; he called for reinstating pay for political service, and sought to extend citizenship to all the metics and foreigners who had fought alongside him against the Thirty.
		Thrasybulus largely faded from view for several years as Conon led the Athenian fleet to a series of victories, but in 392 BC Conon was imprisoned by the Persian satrap Tiribazus while attending a peace conference at Sardis; although released, he died in Cyprus without returning to Athens.
	www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /t/h/r/Thrasybulus.html (3051 words)

	Thrasybulus
		The navy employed mostly poorer citizens and included many of the most ardent supporters of the democracy, and under Thrasybulus and Thrasyllus[?] these declared their opposition to the revolutionaries, believing themselves to be in as good a position as the men of the city.
		Then Thrasybulus seized the Piraeus, and managed to defeat the oligarchs in a battle on the hill of Munychia[?], where Critias was killed.
		In 389 BC, Thrasybulus was sent out with 40 ships, ultimately to help Rhodes maintain her independence but first to levy money from her allies and to plunder when they could not receive it.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Thrasybulus.html (507 words)

	Thrasybulus - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		THRASYBULUS, an Athenian general, whose public career began in 411 B.C., when by his resolute behaviour he frustrated the oligarchic rising in Samos (see Peloponnesian War), and secured the Athenian armament to the cause of democracy.
		Thrasybulus now gained the Peiraeus, 1000 strong, and successfully held the steep hill of Munychia against the oligarchs' full force.
		Thrasybulus was now the hero of the people; but a decree by which he secured the franchise for all his followers, including many slaves, was rescinded as illegal.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Thrasybulus (438 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1107 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When the news arrived of the establishment of the Four Hundred at Athens, Thrasybulus and Thrasyllus were among the most active in urging resistance, to the oligarchy, and exacted a solemn oath from the Athenians of the fleet that they would maintain the democracy, and persevere in the war with the Peloponnesians.
		Through the influence of Thrasybulus a decree was passed by the camp-assembly, by which Alcibiades was pardoned and recalled.
		An Athenian, a native of the deme Colyttus, was one of the companions of Thrasybulus the Steirian at Phyle and Peiraeus.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3441.html (1105 words)

	Thrasybulus (tyrant) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thrasybulus was the tyrant of Miletus in the 7th century BC.
		Thrasybulus was an ally of Periander, the tyrant of Corinth.
		Thrasybulus, instead of responding, takes the messenger for a walk in a corn field, where he slices off all the tallest stalks by swinging a stick.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thrasybulus_(tyrant) (202 words)

	Thrasybulus
		Thrasybulus was either removed from command on the spot by Alcibiades or not reelected at the end of his term; either way, he was out of office from then until the end of the war.[16]
		Thrasybulus had been one of the first to oppose the oligarchy and had been exiled to Thebes shortly after its rise to power.[19] There, he was welcomed and supported by the Theban leader Ismenias and his followers, who assisted him in preparing for a return to Athens.
		Thrasybulus was also the tyrant of Miletus in the 7th century BC.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Thrasybulus.html (2677 words)

	Thrasybulus Anecdote
		Thrasybulus did not answer, but took the messenger out for a walk in the corn field.
		he Thrasybulus anecdote with its imagery of a tyrant cutting down and throwing away his sociopolitical peers seems to reflect the intra-aristocratic strife that gave rise to tyrannies in many Archaic poleis in the late seventh and sixth centuries B.C.E. The verbs [used]...
		This was not a penalty for wrong-doing, but the political outcome of an appeal to the citizenry by the aristocrats, somewhat similar to our modern election campaigns when one party comes into power, but the losing party constitutes an opposition and is not physically exiled.
	post.queensu.ca /~forsdyke/thrasybulus.htm (1167 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1998.12.13
		By way of giving Thrasybulus the attention his deeds warrant, Buck provides in his brief study a Thrasybulus-centered history of the period from 411 -- when his subject was elected general by the Athenian troops at Samos -- to 389, the year of Thrasybulus' death at Aspendus.
		Perhaps Thrasybulus, by ensuring Athenian inactivity, was repaying favours to the Ismenian faction in Thebes; or perhaps Athens was simply too weak to fight the Boeotian army; or perhaps Athens was too preoccupied with Eleusis.
		Thrasybulus, while Athens was alone and weak, saw to it that she took no offensive action beyond her borders (except at Eleusis), but stayed submissive in her role as a loyal ally of Sparta.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1998/1998-12-13.html (2441 words)

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		In 406 he fought at Arginusae as a simple ship's captain, but after the engagement was commissioned with Theramenes (q.v.) to rescue some drowning crews.
		Thrasybulus now gained the Peiraeus, I000 strong, and successfully held the steep hill of Munychia against the oligarchs' full force.
		Meanwhile a Spartan fleet, which the latter had summoned, blockaded the Peiraeus, but king Pausanias, commanding the land forces, after some skirmishes effected a general reconciliation by which the democracy was restored (October 403).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=65687 (433 words)

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		Significant, however, is the fact that Thrasybulus, with one exception, is always mentioned with Thrasyllus: and this attachment to another public figure is a marked feature of Thrasybulus' career, and could well have been better exploited in the discussion, which must now rely on the lesser sources, namely Xenophon and Diodorus.
		Thrasybulus really comes to the fore in these events and he seems to have been acknowledged as the prime mover of a return to the democracy so violently suppressed by the 'Thirty', who were defeated and allowed to withdraw to Eleusis by September 403 (p.
		But Thrasybulus was obviously not a politician comfortable in a principal role and he 'was not as glib or persuasive a speaker as some of the other party leaders' (p.
	www.und.ac.za /und/classics/schrev/99-15buc.html (1611 words)

	Featured WIKI » Blog Archive » Thrasybulus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thrasybulus was an Athenian general and democratic leader.
		After Athens’; defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Thrasybulus led the democratic resistance to the new oligarchic government, known as the Thirty Tyrants, that the victorious Spartans imposed on Athens.
		As a leader of this revived democracy in the 4th century BC, Thrasybulus advocated a policy of resistance to Sparta and sought to restore Athens’; imperial power.
	fozylet.com /2006/07/31/thrasybulus (293 words)

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		It was primarily Alcibiades, along with Thrasybulus, who calmed the people and showed them the folly of this proposal, which would have sparked civil war and led to the immediate defeat of Athens.
		Thrasybulus landed his own force to temporarily relieve pressure on Alcibiades, and meanwhile ordered Theramenes to join up with Athenian land forces nearby and bring them to reinforce the sailors and marines on the beach.
		Robert J. Buck, on the other hand, maintains that Thrasybulus was probably never involved in the plot, possibly because he was absent from Samos at the time of its inception.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Alcibiades (8141 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1108 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He was a soothsayer, in which capacity he foretold to the Mantineans their victory over Agis and the Lacedaemonians, and himself took part in the battle.
		On the death of Hieron, Thrasybulus succeeded him in the government.
		224), that Thrasybulus became the guardian of his nephew on the death of Polyzelus, and before the death of Hieron; and that, having rendered the youth odious and contemptible, he found no difficulty, when Hieron died, in setting him aside, and usurping his authority.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3442.html (1015 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.12.13
		Although Thrasybulus of Steiria was a major player in some of the mostimportant events of Athenian history, he has been largely neglected by ancient commentators and modern scholars alike.
		By way of giving Thrasybulus the attention his deeds warrant, Buck provides in his brief study a Thrasybulus-centered history of the period from 411--when his subject was elected general by the Athenian troops at Samos--to 389, the year of Thrasybulus' death at Aspendus.
		In this passage Thucydides is reporting only that Thrasybulus and Thrasyllus were among those elected by the soldiers, and that they had already been in command: Íp[[infinity]]rxon does not convey the sense of "rule" (see LSJ s.v.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1998/1998-12-13-beta.html (2432 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 273 (v. 1) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He was a native of Coele, and one of the leading Athenian patriots, who to gether with Thrasybulus and Anytus occupied Phyle, led the Athenian exiles back, and over threw the government of the Thirty tyrants, B.
		618.) Although the name of Archinus is obscured in history by that of Thrasybulus, yet we have every.reason for believing that he was a better and a greater man. Demosthenes says, that he was often at the head of armies, and that he was particularly great as a statesman.
		When Thrasybulus proposed, contrary to law, that one of his friends should be rewarded with a crown, Archinus opposed the illegal proceeding, and came forward as accuser of Thrasybulus.
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	Cornelius Nepos: Lives of Eminent Commanders (date) pp. 305-... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		he was received at first, through the agency of Thrasybulus the son of Lycus, by the army, and made commander at Samos; and afterwards, from Theramenes making.nterest for him, he was recalled by a decree of the people, and, while still absent, was appointed to equal command with 339 Thrasybulus and Theramenes.
		Thrasybulus, on this occasion, exercised not less prudence than valour; for he forbade those that fled to be injured, thinking it just that "countrymen should spare countrymen;" nor was any one wounded except such as would attack him first.
		Thrasybulus, accordingly, being content with 347 that crown, neither sought for anything more, nor considered that any one had surpassed him in honour.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /fathers/nepos.htm (15245 words)

	Lysias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Here he was able to assist Thrasybulus and the Athenians in exile in their struggle to restore democracy at Athens, providing them with money and a fair number of shields.
		Thrasybulus tabled a motion that Lysias should receive the honorary rank of Athenian citizen, but this was rejected and Lysias remained isoteles ('a metic taxed on a par with true citizens') until his death in 380.
		Lysias' putting on trial one of the Thirty Tyrants called Eratosthenes proved to be a turning point in his life.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/lysias.htm (333 words)

	Thrasybulus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		440s BC – 388 BC Thrasybulus receiving an olive crown for his successful campaign against the Thirty Tyrants.
		^ Buck, Thrasybulus and the Athenian Democracy, 71-79.
		^ Henry Dickinson Westlake and Simon Hornblower, "Thrasybulus," from the Oxford Classical Dictionary, Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth ed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thrasybulus (3060 words)

	Cornelius Nepos: Lives of Eminent Commanders (1886) pp. 305-450
		he was received at first, through the agency of Thrasybulus the son of Lycus, by the army, and made commander at Samos; and afterwards, from Theramenes making interest for him, he was recalled by a decree of the people, and, while still absent, was appointed to equal command with 339 Thrasybulus and Theramenes.
		Character of Thrasybulus; he proceeds to deliver his country from the Thirty Tyrants, I.----His success and conduct in the enterprise, II.----His act of oblivion, III.----He is honoured with an olive crown; is killed on the coast of Sicily, IV.
		THRASYBULUS, the son of Lycus, was a native of Athens.
	www.ccel.org /p/pearse/morefathers/nepos.htm (15111 words)

	Cyzicus
		The Persian troops under Pharnabazus, however, entered the fighting on the shore and began to drive the Athenians, who were outnumbered and fighting against opponents on firmer ground, into the sea.
		Seeing this, Thrasybulus landed his force as a diversion and ordered Theramenes to combine his troops with those of Chaereas and join the battle.
		For a time, Thrasybulus and Alcibiades were both driven back by superior forces, but the arrival of Theramenes and Chaereas turned the tide; the Spartans and Persians were defeated, Mindarus was killed.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/History/Battles/Cyzicus.html (901 words)

	THRASYBULUS - Article en ligne de l'information environ THRASYBULUS
		THRASYBULUS, un général athénien, dont la carrière publique a commencé dans 411 B.c., quand par son comportement résolu il a frustré se lever oligarchique dans See also:
		Dans l'enquête suivante Thrasybulus a avec succès démenti la responsabilité de l'échec.
		Thrasybulus était maintenant le héros du peuple; mais un décret par lequel il a fixé la See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /fr/THE_TOO/THRASYBULUS.html (850 words)

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