Thrasybulus (tyrant)

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	Thrasybulus Anecdote
		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]...
		Thrasybulus did not answer, but took the messenger out for a walk in the corn field.
		The Thrasybulus anecdote in Herodotus' Histories and Aristotle's Politics.
	post.queensu.ca /~forsdyke/thrasybulus.htm (1167 words)

	History of Herodotus by Herodotus
		This Periander, who apprised Thrasybulus of the oracle, was son of Cypselus, and tyrant of Corinth.
		Alyattes, the moment that the words of the oracle were reported to him, sent a herald to Miletus in hopes of concluding a truce with Thrasybulus and the Milesians for such a time as was needed to rebuild the temple.
		The herald went upon his way; but meantime Thrasybulus had been apprised of everything; and conjecturing what Alyattes would do, he contrived this artifice.
	www.4literature.net /Herodotus/History_of_Herodotus/3.html (1262 words)

	History of Syracuse
		467/6- Thrasybulus (Thrasuboulos), brother of Gelon and Hieron I. 466 -406 BC second democracy A revolution in 466 overthrew Hieron's successor as tyrant, Thrasybulus, who retired to Locri.
		He should have been succeeded by his son, but his brother Thrasybulus assumed the government, which he carried on with such cruelty and perfidy that he was expelled after a year.
		He contrived to avoid a war with Girgenti, aided the Cumaneans to conquer the Etruscans by sea (474), and established his dominion as far as Mt. Etna.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /syracuse-history.htm (1667 words)

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