Thrasylus

Family: Athenians · Role: commander · First appears: Book 1, section 1, part 2/2

About the same period, Thrasylus led the Athenians out against Agis as he approached the city; Agis withdrew, and Athens then authorized Thrasylus to summon hoplites, cavalry, and triremes. At Chalcedon, Thrasylus and Hippocrates fought with their heavy infantry; Hippocrates fell, and his troops fled into the city. Thrasylus also released Alcibiades, who was an Athenian prisoner.

Later, the returning generals were deposed in Athens. Timocrates proposed that five be imprisoned and handed over to the assembly, while Theramenes’s party arranged for disguised mourners to appear and persuaded Callixenus to accuse the generals. At a later date, eight generals were condemned and the six then in Athens were put to death. Thrasybulus was among the taxiarchs left behind, alongside Theramenes, after the two undertook to accuse the generals.