Thibron
Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: general · First appears: Book 3, section 2, part 1/3
Thibron returned home and was fined and banished after the allies accused him of allowing his troops to plunder their friends. In 392 B.C., the Lacedaemonians sent him to fight Struthas, whose hostility toward them contrasted with his friendliness toward the Athenians.
In 391 B.C., at the plain of the Maeander, Struthas’s cavalry defeated Thibron’s forces. Thibron and Thersander were among the first killed. In 390 B.C., Diphridas was ordered to gather the survivors of Thibron’s army and continue the war against Struthas.
Relationship record
Life events
- Thibron was fined and banished after returning home.(Book 3, section 1, part 1/2)
- “Thus it was that Thibron returned home, where on his arrival he was fined and banished, the allies accusing him of allowing his troops to plunder their friends.”
- The Lacedaemonians sent Thibron to attack Struthas by force of arms.(Book 4, section 8, part 2/4)
- Struthas's cavalry defeated Thibron's forces, killing Thibron and Thersander.(Book 4, section 8, part 2/4 · 📍 the plain of the Maeander)
- With: Struthas Thersander
- “Thibron and Thersander were the first to be cut down, and when these had fallen the rest of the troops were easily turned.”
- Diphridas was ordered to gather Thibron's survivors and continue the war against Struthas.(Book 4, section 8, part 2/4 · 📍 Asia)
- With: Diphridas Struthas
- “His orders were to cross over into Asia and to secure the states which had received Thibron. He was also to pick up the survivors of Thibron's army, and with these troops, aided by a second army which he would collect from any other quarter open to him, he was to prosecute the war against Struthas.”
Book 3, section 2, part 1/3
- with Dercylidas (Thibron's earlier conduct is cited as a cautionary example.) “Two considerations now began to occupy his mind: how was he to avoid falling into the fatal error of Thibron and becoming a burthen to his allies, whilst wintering in a friendly country?”
Book 4, section 8, part 2/4
- with Struthas (Thibron was sent to fight Struthas.) “The latter, however, was a strong partisan of Athens and her allies, since he found it impossible to forget the long list of evils which the king's country had suffered at the hands of Agesilaus; so that the Lacedaemonians, contrasting the hostile disposition of the new satrap towards themselves with his friendliness to the Athenians, sent Thibron to deal with him by force of arms.”
- with Thersander (They were together returning to the mess.) “Thibron, as it befell, had just finished breakfast, and was returning to the mess with Thersander the flute-player.”
- enemies with Struthas (Thibron was sent to fight Struthas.) “so that the Lacedaemonians, contrasting the hostile disposition of the new satrap towards themselves with his friendliness to the Athenians, sent Thibron to deal with him by force of arms.”
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